Change in workplace

After 5.5 years at Infosys Technolgies, I have made my move. I am now employed at Accenture in their Bangalore office as a Team Lead and am looking forward to some fun work.

The decision to change was a difficult one that had to me made. The hunt for the job itself was another story. Had two or three small interviews that I did not clear for the simple reason that they did not excite me enough and I did not prepare well. Had the chance to get into a big investment bank, but unexpected delays made it infeasible.

The most fun part was my interview with Thoughtworks. They called me up on a Friday to do the initial phone screening by HR and after an hour he was convinced I was ready for their coding assignment. That weekend we had a major escalation at work and in between fixing and testing things, I found time to solve the Mars Rover problem - I even rewrote the thing twice and added a lot more tests than planned.

That code made the cut, and I was called for an in office interview. I did not make it, reason being I did not have the depth they expected (I shall reserve my comments on this), but the whole experience was fun. The logic and analytical test they give is good. My pairing round was miserable because a)I have never done pair programming and b) The guy was not thinking on the same lines and was putting brakes on my thought process. I am surprised they took me to the next round then found I was not up to their expectations - frankly I did not expect to get through after the pairing round.

But finally, I have joined Accenture. Hope I do well here.