Thursday, September 14, 2006

Hyderabad - flight was delayed and so we were late to arrive at the

India School of Business- a really cool campus that offers a certificate program after graduating with a BA. Missed lunch got coffee shop fare at the little café (this was the only time we had to buy our own food).

Infosys - a really cool campus (all of the campuses in Hyderabad are huge manicured, spiffy places that rival Redmond’s campus). They fed us meat pastries, veggie- pastries and pastry pastries and all kinds of juices, coffee and tea. They had fired over 80 people in the last 4 months, people that had falsified info on their resumes.

Microsoft – just like the Redmond campus, very cool. Please hire me!!! We spoke to Program Managers, Development Teams and Human Resources. The most recent hire had only been there 20 days and the longest was 5 years the day before (both PMs).

Dr. Reddy - DRUGS, DRUGS. We toured the Research and Development center, saw the testing facilities. They had a bunch of dogs we got to play with, cute little puppies. They gave us lunch. We saw another group touring and hypothesized (from the “Welcome GSK” sign) that they were Glaxo Smith Klein. Very cool, we offered them copies of our resumes but they declined.

Next we went to the production plant. They would not hand out samples but we did suit up in the clean rooms with booties, hair nets and lab coats (imagine 18 lunch ladies doing little dance steps in hallways). We saw antacids being pressed in to pills. The flawed pills that are rejected are burned at 1000 degrees to render them inert so that they may be used to fertilize trees.

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