jobs status update graduates 2009

June 24, 2009

Had this in mind for sometime now, but could not get the exhaustive list. nonetheless, let me start with what I know and request your assistance in completing it.

This data is of IT and related companies, hires of 2009 batch from NITK only.

Name of Company No of people hired Status
Accenture 40 Started on Sep 1st
Aditi Technologies 7 Called to join on August 1st
Adobe 2 Joined (end April)
Analog Devices 1 Called to join sometime in May
Aricent 14 Joining 19th June or 7th July
Bank of America 4 Joined (mid June)
BMC Software 5 Called to join on 7th July
C-Dot 6 Called to join on 3rd August
Cdot Alcatel 8
Cisco 6 Called to join in September
Computer Associates 5 3 candidates called to join on 16th July. rest awaiting joining in August.
Computer Sciences Corp. 12
DE Shaw 4 Joined on 22nd June
Dell 3 Called to join in early July
DRDO 6
Exeter 4 Deferred to 1st Quarter 2010
Futures First Info Services 5
Geodesic 2 Joined in June
Global Logic 6 Joining btw Jan-Jun 2010. Updates in Dec 2009
Goldman Sachs 5 Joined (June)
HP – STSD 8 1 lac pay slashed. Joined on 24th June
HP – consulting 14 Called to join 15th July
HSBC 7 Joined (June)
IBM interns of 3rd year Called to Join on 1st July
Iflex Solutions 2
Igate Solutions 3
Intuit 1 Called to join on 3rd August
ITC Infotech 11
Ittiam 5
Lister Technologies 3 Joined July 15th
McAffee 3 Called to join on 1st July
MuSigma Business Solutions 6 3 ppl inducted in June. Plus 1 lac pay slashed. Rest asked to hold on until December for updates.
NI 3 Called to join 1st July
NetApp 3 Called to Join 1st July
Nokia Siemens 14 13 candidates were told in mid-June that their offer does not hold anymore. 1 candidate was asked to join.
Nortel 1
Novell 4 Job offers deferred to March 2010. Internships offered instead, starting July 6th. Communicated in June
Nvidia 1 Called to join on 15th June
OnMobile 1 Called to join in July
Oracle 37 Different units inducted ppl through July.
Patni Computers 7
Phillips 4
Qwest Telecom 3
RedPine Systems 3 Called to join on 1st July
Samsung 7 Called to join in July
Sankalp Semiconductor 2 Deferred to March 2010
Satyam Computers 15
Sony 1
Strand Life Sciences 2
Sungard 1 Called to join on 14th July
Symbian 5 Called to join on 2nd July
Tata Teleservices 6
TCS 45
Tejas Networks 4
Texas Instruments 3
Thorogood Associates 3
Verizon 2 Called to join on 12th Aug
Wipro 11
Yahoo 2 Called to join either on 15th June or 22nd July
ZS Associates – consulting 10 Joined in mid June
ZS Associates – Software dev 5 Called to join on 24th August as yet.

I request you provide the missing information (or updates) to fill up the table. Also forward this to as many friends and ask them to fill in what they know. It is the only way this can be completed.

The purpose of this document is to congregate from the distributed network and provide information in one place for the benefit of whomsoever interested. I promise it will come to use for many people, and also act as a feedback mechanism to assist our juniors.

You can reach to me or provide the details in the comments section below.


kubuntu 9.04 – my experiences

June 9, 2009

Today, I installed Kubuntu 9.04

  • The Good
  1. installs from within windows on ntfs (i’ve stopped attempting to install suse and sabayon for this reason)
  2. detects wireless (no wireless problems in linux since two years now)
  3. isn’t crashing (not that i have used it much or pushed it, for that matter)
  4. looks beautiful (this is one important factor that is keeping me tied to this)
  5. KDE4 widgets are kick-ass. cool!!
  6. its closing on with Ubuntu wrt functionality (i fundamentally like KDE, was a GNOME user due to Ubuntu’s remarkable features)
  7. installing software is easy. (installed opera as binary, codecs and related stuff with kubuntu-restricted-extras apt meta-package, including flash and java)
  8. Bundles software for most requirements are very good. Definitely a plus over gnome apps, I personally feel.
  • The Bad
  1. Graphics issue. Drivers. Compiz doesn’t work. major blow. (I don’t care if it isn’t their issue. I am not blaming anyone. Just that, it doesn’t work for me)
  2. Restricted Hardware Driver isn’t mentioning that graphics card has propreitory driver. (I read that there isn’t one yet, for Jaunty+ATI)
  3. Sound from two sources – still buggy (youtbe in opera didn’t give sound with amarok paused)
  4. window manager themes could be better. (The destop looks beautiful, the windows not anywhere so)
  5. mouseless operation not comfortable (maybe its just me, being new to this desktop environment. buttons are tiny, mouse usage reqd is heavy)
  6. Keyboard media keys didn’t work out-of-the-box. configured them for amarok alone, but yet they don’t act as global shortcuts now.

Its otherwise a very good software. Remarkable in the fact that it is all this, and yet free. who are these ppl who write this software?? where are they? @ http://twitter.com/arbitya/status/2080048754

screenshot – http://dailyscreenshot.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/kde-4-and-desktop-widgets/


better car headlights

June 4, 2009

ever wondered, why turning in the dark is so difficult ?

because, if the road is not well lit, while turning, you can’t see the road beyond the turn due to the lack of light.

the headlights of the car would be directed straight forward.

why not, in case the headlights are turned on, upon turning on the turn indicator lights, switched on an additional light to the direction of the turn.

i’ve put a simple image to depict the spread of light that can be realized –

maybe I should patent this.

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