Hii folks,
From the very beginning of my career in Aditi, I have been part of the bug fixing team, in one project or the other, be it Goldman Sachs or Accenture.
And peeking in the future I see a lot of scope and requirement in this new Vertical, at least for a fresher software engineer.
Of late this thought crossed my mind, that I walked out of the interview with a triumph on my face and a bunch of papers so called ”Offer Letter” in my hand.
And ya we were around 6-7 guys among that 3500 + huge and bloody crowd out there stepping on each other’s toes, trying to give the best in them to make it to the ‘Think Product ‘ family.
And this very moment I ask myself “And you thought you were the real hero?? “, “you had the talent they are looking for ??”.
This recent past of 9 months seems to be very short for I have put my larger chunk of day time in snapping the states of the bugs from Assigned to Resolved in that bug life cycle.
And that equally large part of my night was conquered by these filthy bugs surfacing my application, what the world named those moments of life as nightmares.
Of course the same subject “Life Cycle” I studied in my school days as part of the Biology curriculum, and all we really knew about the bug life cycle was very less, I joined the IT industry only to realize that the bug life cycle is not so trivial as it seems in text books, its far more pathetic and sometimes hectic too J.
If you scratch the surface of a bug, you only discover a very small part of it, move it to Assigned state and watch out for how loathsome it can get.
And there are QA wagons who come with the prophecy and blow back the life into the bugs, I understand that’s all part of the bug life cycle again, and we hear our managers saying this is “a process”.
Oh sorry, let me not veer the topic, I was talking about the Offer letter, yep the Offer letter , I read it as “Development Engineer” with my broken English.
At the same time my hands fumbling and eyes scanning through the pages to pick that bountiful “CTC”, and send the signal to the stuff behind my temple which was already neck-deep in euphoria, yep you got it right I am talking about my brains.
What sound me very interesting was the position “Development Engineer”, coz I was expecting something like either Software Engineer or Associate Software Engineer.
Back to the present J , ok let me be straight in the face, I have coined a new term for the kind of job we(all my peers who have expertise in bug life cycle) do, its “Bug Repellant”, for the bugs we fix.
I have plans of proposing this to management, for the change in position, and to add a new rung to the career ladder.
And going forward, working our way up in the ladder we can gain more experience over time as a Senior Bug Repellant, Bug Repellant Lead.. and perhaps Director of Bug technology.
Please give your precious inputs, to make Aditi a better place to work
Actual Dat:Sunday June 8, 2008
