3I INFOTECH COMPANY PROFILE

3i Infotech is one of the India's leading IT Companies and among the top 4 Indian Software products companies. They provide complete end-to-end outsourcing solutions for various industries. It has a comprehensive set of solutions for the banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, retail & distribution and contracting sectors.
The company's Global Delivery Model provides for the best resources to be drawn from its vast talent pool across the globe to offer optimal solutions.

3i Infotech has worked with over 700 customers worldwide, including Dow Jones, GlaxoSmithKline, Panasonic, American Insurance Group, OCBC Bank, QBE Insurance and Emirates Bank. Promoted by the $25 billion NYSE-listed ICICI Bank, 3i Infotech serves customers in 30 countries and has presence across 4 continents. The company offers the following range of enterprise services and solutions to meet varying customer requirements.
3i Infotech is SEI CMMI Level 5 compliant for its Software services and ISO 9001:2000 certified for its IT Infrastructure and Transaction services.

Services

• IT Outsourcing
• IT Infrastructure Management
• IT Security Consultancy
• Product Re-engineering
• Packaged Application Implementation
• EAI
• e-Governance
• Business Process Management

3i Infotech has five delivery centers in India spread over 150,000 square feet in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. Each delivery center is well networked with built in redundancies and can work as an independent unit as well as backup for other units.

Recruitment

• Resume collation and filtering
• Initial screening
• Preliminary screening and short listing
• Flexible staffing administration
• Reporting & documentation

To know about the careers with the company you may contact with the HR Department or can mail at opportunities@3i-infotech.com

CSC COMPANY PROFILE

CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) is a leading information technology (IT) services company. CSC’s mission is to be a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. The company is one of the leading outsourcing solutions providers in the world. It has a strong position in providing IT services to government customers.
CSC also provides business process outsourcing, managing key functions for clients, such as procurement and supply chain, call centers and customer relationship management, credit services, claims processing and logistics. I/T and professional services include systems integration, consulting and other professional services. Systems integration encompasses designing, developing, implementing and integrating complete information systems. Consulting and professional services includes advising clients on the strategic acquisition and utilization of I/T and on business strategy, security, modeling, simulation, engineering, operations, change management and business process reengineering.

The solutions provided by CSC include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting.

Specialties
Consulting, IT, Systems Integration, Outsourcing
CSC India offers applications services, product development and support services, infrastructure services, IT outsourcing and BPO services to clients worldwide. With a winning combination of strong functional knowledge, in-depth technological expertise, uncompromised process rigour and world class industry standards and compliance in place, CSC India has consistently built upon its experience to deliver business results in the global information technology marketplace, thus earning the trust of some of the world’s biggest organisations.
The company is hiring freshers as well as experienced hands. Nearly 10-15 per cent of the recruitments are freshers. Indian centres: Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Noida, Indore, Vadora etc

CSC Test Pattern:
The paper contains 100 questions which you need to complete them in 25 min.
No negative marking for that, but don't try to put all random answering for the unknown one... because even that will be judged.
And there is no general knowledge based questions, and it would be totally of 2 parts like Maths, English grammar and you will find the alternative questions from these two parts, like 1st English, 2nd Maths, 3rd English, 4th Question Maths etc.

CAREEIAR WITH ORACLE

Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology company that specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products - particularly database management systems. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States of America, Oracle has more than 1, 01,950 employees worldwide as of January 2010. Larry Ellison, is playing a crucial role as CEO, recently he announced that oracle is going to recruit 2000 new employees.

Recruitment Process:
Oracle follows both online and offline recruitment process. The Company’s HR team Shortlists candidate’s based on their CVs. Candidates have to go through 2-3 rounds of technical and one round of HR interview.

On campus interview:
In a 30-minute interview, the company wants to know about the candidate’s academic achievements, awards and his personality traits. Company also focuses on candidate's interests, his creativity and what is it that a candidate cares about most? Interviewer may also ask technical questions related to specific projects and products.

Career:
Oracle provides excellent career opportunities. It also provides supportive environment to foster career and self-management. Oracle recognizes and rewards employees for growing either as a "knowledge leader “or as a "people leader" (manager role).

Cognizant Technology COMPANY

Introduction:
Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an information technology services company with headquarters in New Jersey USA and with significant operations in Chennai, India. Cognizant started in 1994, as Dun & Bradstreet Satyam Software - the in-house technology development center for the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (D&B) and its operating units.

Cognizant provides application maintenance services, data warehousing, software development and integration, and reengineering services for legacy systems, primarily to medium-sized and large businesses.

Company Profile
Year of Inception: 1994
Headquarter Address: Teaneck, New Jersey
Employees Worldwide: 60000+
Entry level salaries: 8-10 LPA for Management Trainees & 3.01 LPA for SE
Placement Procedure: Written Test(Aptitude), Interview (Tech+ HR )
Campuses Visited: All good engineering college across India
Locations placed: All over India (Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Kochi and Gurgaon)

LIFE @ CTS
Technology, Domain & Quality of work: Java / JS / J2EE / Struts / Servlet, MS.Net / C# / VB / XML / VC++ / Ajax, Oracle Apps, PL / SQL, ERP, Software Testing, Business Analyst

Learning Opportunities: Well planned training program

Career Growth Ladder: Associate >> Sr. Associate >> Team Lead >> Consultant >> Project Manager

Recommendations: Good company for fresher’s who are just looking in to a job in current recession.

Views about CTS:
CTS offer three months of initial program of rigorous training for all those who do not have industry experience. Looking at current situation onsite opportunities are still better than its counterparts. Work environment do not considered to be too good. Offices have more local aspects rather being global.

Views about the company:
The training program offered by CTS is quite renowned in industry. Fair and politics free environment prevails in CTS. But Salary for freshers is an issue at CTS. They pay low. Appraisals are also low. It lacks quality of work. But some domain knowledge may be useful in future.

Recommendations:
CTS is average learning place and for people who just want a career in IT, TS is quite a good place to work. If you have other options like TCS, Infosys, IBM, Wipro than CTS is not that good place.

Website: www.cognizant.com

INFOSYS COMPANY PROFILE

Infosys is credited with pioneering the use of talent in India to compete in consulting and IT services in the US and Europe. Based in Electronics City, an industrial park in Bangalore, the firm has nine development centers in India and over 40 offices in 17 countries.

Company Profile
Year of Inception: 1981
Headquarter Address: Electronics City, Bangaluru, India
Employees Worldwide: 104000+
Entry level salaries: 5-7 LPA for Management Trainees & 3.25 LPA for SE
Placement Procedure: Written Test(Aptitude), Interview (Tech, HR )
Campuses Visited: All good engineering college across India

Locations placed: All over India (Bangalore, New Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Mangalore, Mysore, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram).

Technology, Domain & Quality of work: Oracle, Mainframe, .Net/XML/Ajax, J2EE/Java/Struts/Servlet, VB/VC++,People soft, PL/SQL, CRM, ERP, C/C++,Data warehousing and other database Technologies

Learning Opportunities: Well planned training program

Career Growth Ladder: Associate >> Sr. Associate >> Team Lead >> Consultant >> Project Manager

Recommendations: Good company for fresher’s as learning curve for technical perspective is very step in first few years. Paid well to employees have prior work experience.

Views about Infosys: Infosys offers three months of initial program of rigorous training for all those who do not have industry experience. Infosys facilitates learning by providing on job training to meet the job requirements. Infosys is value driven and is a paper and plastic free office. The training program offered by INFOSYS is quite renowned in industry. Fair and politics free environment prevails in Infosys that separate organization from rest. Infosys respect leaders and help achievers in high career growth.

Recommendations: For people who like to join big names ‘strong yes’. INFOSYS is average learning place and for people who just want a career in IT INFOSYS is quite a good place to work.

Website: www.Infosys.com

NATIONAL THERMAL COMPANY PROFILE

NTPC Limited, India's largest power company with an installed capacity of 31,134 MW is presently operating 15 coal based, 7 gas based power stations and 4 joint ventures. NTPC contributed around 1/3rd of the country's entire power generation during the year 2008-09 and plans to become a 75,000 MW power company by 2017. NTPC has moved ahead by diversifying its portfolio to emerge as an integrated power major with presence across the entire energy value chain. NTPC has been allocated 6 coal mine blocks which are expected to produce 48 million tons per annum. NTPC has been ranked No. 1 in 'Best Workplaces for Large Organizations' and eighth overall in 2008 by Great Places to Work in collaboration with the Economic Times. With its excellent practice in Human Capital Management, NTPC is the most admired organization in public sector. Powered by dynamic and dedicated workforce, NTPC has ambitious growth plans and to make it happen, NTPC is looking for promising, energetic young Graduate Engineers & Finance and HR professionals with brilliant academic record to join the organization. Company Profile Company: National Thermal Power Corporation Limited Founded Year:1975 Headquarter: Delhi, India Location: all India Website: www.ntpc.co.in Recruitment: NTPC believes in the philosophy ‘Grow your own timber’. NTPC hire from campuses. NTPC's ‘Executive Trainee’ Scheme was introduced in the year 1977 with the objective to raise a cadre of home grown professionals. First Division Graduate Engineers/Post Graduates are hired through nation wide open competitive examination and campus recruitments. Hiring is followed by 52 weeks induction training (fully paid) consisting of theoretical input, on job training, personality development & management modules. The test pattern: For the off campus recruitment it conducts written test. The written test consists of two papers-Technical and Aptitude. The questions of the technical test depend on the discipline chosen. Campus placements: Every year NTPC visits for the recruitment of fresh engineering graduates. NTPC generally recruits from Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. NTPC campus recruitment procedure contains no written test. Generally it conducts Technical Interview and HR interview. Technical Interview contains questions on Particular Specializations. HR Interview contains questions about candidates aims and aspirations, company information etc Salary: Selected candidates will be placed in the pay scale of Rs. 11225-4%-17250 at the basic pay of Rs. 11225/- during one-year training. These candidates will be absorbed after successful completion of training as Engineer / Officer in the pay scale of Rs.12000-4%-17500 at a basic pay of Rs. 12000/- Bond: Bond of 3yrs or 2.5 lakh Career Paths: A formal career path and development process exists in NTPC. All career paths have an underlying management structure. Promotions within each career path are aligned with the needs of the organization. Succession criteria for leadership positions in each career path have been identified, which provide basis for job rotation. Anyone joining the organisation can choose to pursue a business, function or staff career path and will be put through specific training interventions and job rotation path towards becoming a business, function or staff head. Work culture: Company is a PSU. Its commitment is required as completion of projects is top priority. In addition to providing beautiful and safe work places, NTPC encourages a culture of mutual respect and trust amongst peers, superiors and subordinates. Employee Development Centers- Employee Development Centers (EDCs) are located at all NTPC projects and stations and take care of training needs of employees at the unit. They have similar infrastructure as that of PMI and have full time dedicated staff of 150 employees across NTPC. EDCs serve to meet the training needs that can be catered to locally.

L&T COMPANY PROFILE

L and T is India’s leading technology, engineering, and construction and manufacturing company in the private sector. It is scouting for engineering graduates with a love for engineering, a passion for excellence and a positive outlook. EVERY year L&T visits approximately 80 engineering campuses across the country to hire enthusiastic young engineers. The company recruits around 1,200 engineering graduates - 400 for specialized work such as construction and design, and the remaining for its Manufacturing and Projects Divisions.

COMPANY PROFILE:
Turnover: Rs 36,996 crore
Employee strength: 38,785
No. of offices: 60
No. of plants: 20

Campus hiring
Areas: Most engineering disciplines.

Eligibility: First division or 60% in class 10, 12 and graduation. Students with only one ATKT (allowed to keep term)/backlog are accepted. Company representatives visit campuses and make a pre-placement presentation. Interested students contact the placement officer or placement in-charge, who sends details to L&T, which then shortlists applications and informs the college placement officer of short-listed students who then appear for a paper-pencil entrance exam.

Written test: The difficulty level of test isn’t as high as GRE or GMAT. Typically, exam results are announced on the same day and successful candidates called for the interview. The exam papers are set internally with professional help, and the duration is approximately one hour. The test comprises three sections: numerical, verbal and analytical, and no negative marking.

Personal interview: This level is tougher as compared to the examination, and candidates are assessed in several areas. A sound knowledge of concepts and their applications is paramount. In a company such as L&T, knowledge of all engineering concepts is necessary as most of the projects at L&T draw expertise from all the engineering fields. It is better to focus on practical application of engineering. The interview panel judges the candidate’s technical knowledge, reasoning ability, leadership qualities, and communication skills.

The finishing school: Soon after joining, young engineering recruits undergo a one-month training programme, held at different locations across India. This programme gives an overview of the company, its various divisions, the on-going projects from close quarters so that engineering graduates also understand how they could efficiently contribute. Engineers are provided accommodation and are given full salaries. The package in 2010 will be Rs 3.3 lakhs in the first year.

Skills: A strong technical base, love for engineering, positive attitude, a passion for excellence and leadership skills.

Post graduation is encouraged: Employees can pursue part-time management courses or a PG in technical education. L&T has tie-ups with several institutes such as IIM, Ahmadabad, XLRI and SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, and with IIT Bombay and Warwick University for technical education. The company bears two-thirds of the fee, while the employee pays one-third. If the academic record during the postgraduate programme is good, then the company reimburses the employee’s contribution.