Day One - Cognizant

The placements for the academic yr 2008-09 begun to show its energy today. The unbearable news is that it was inaugurated by Vice chancellor this time also. His unbearable speech :(. After bearing this, there was a welcome speech by Dr. Mannar Jawahar, Director, Cuic. Following this was the unveiling of the first company for recruitment for this 08-09 placements. Its nothing but the Cognizant Technology Solutions. 

The race begun with a video of the company - The story of Cognizant. It was made very professional. The video started with the details of how Cognizant was born, how it developed and its secret behind the success of achieving the $2 Billion in a short period. The video also covered the different facilities one experiences in Cognizant. It lasted for 5 mins. After this, the mike got caught into the hands of Mr. Suresh, Director of Cognizant (Chennai Operations). Its seminar time now. Knowing tat 90% of the students in the audi are in half-sleeping mode, he begun the seminar by saying Good Morning at 12.30 noon :). All thought the Pre-placement talk would be very boring but wrong decision. Here goes the interesting crux of his seminar.

He begun the slideshow with the quick employee number in Cognizant from the date of starting and till now. Cognizant was started wit 175 employees. Surprisingly it has 60k+ employees now. He talked about business models, customer loyalty, wats in store for employees, etc. Finally the interesting slide for those waiting. The compensation is 3.05 l/annum and no service bond this time also. After finishing the slides, there wer some questions reg the discrimination between circuit and non-circuit students in Cognizant, domain of work, etc. 

Answer given by Mr. Suresh was surprising. He told many of the best performing in Cognizant are from non-circuit (non-core) branches. Everyone in the audi wer shocked after hearing this. Rather they wer amazed.  And for second ques, the jobs will be given in common to all and chance will be given to develop the skills in their field of knowledge like Mech., Civil, Mining, etc. 

Completing this ppt, there was passion video which included the success stories of many individuals like Micheal Schumacher, Pele, Kapil Dev, etc. "They made this wit passion. So lets to make it".

After the seminar (ppt), students were guided to exam halls wit an unique Cognizant ID for written test. The written test was Conducted by Merit trac and the test lasted for 90 minutes. The results wil b announced today evening by 6 pm. 

Surprising News:

• Cognizant has come with a mindset to beat the record of placements held in the country till now.
• This is the only company which has conducted the Pre-Placement Talk (ppt) twice on one day for recruiting candidates. A whooping amount of 24oo students attended this ppt in two batches.
• Largest in the histoy. 127 interview panels are to be setup for interview tomo. So think of it. 
• Cognizant has reached $2.93 Billion in the year 2008-09 from $2.13 Billion in the yr 07-08, which any other company has achieved in this dollar value dropping and inflate rising world.
• It has gifted its employees a 30 Gb I-Pod when it reached $2 Billion. Its soon gonna reach $3 Billion enterprise. So prepare urselves to get exclusive gifts soon!!!

So. All the best for the future Cognizians. Hav a passion to make a difference!!!