I am one of the selected candidates for Power Programmer Track, finished training in 2nd last quarter of last financial year, and still waiting for role change. Anyways it is a very good platform to showcase yourself, and you will be joining STG Unit, one of the reputed units.
Now what is power programming track? Well it is an extension of Expert Track (Now there are three tracks: ET, AT, PW, SES [New], and each vary in-terms of allowance not work i.e. More Work Less Pay) and you will be working on high valued client projects and latest technologies. You will be pampered and provided with ample opportunities to build your skills and learn the new one.
But then there are things that are unfortunate but true:
- It has 3 level selection Process: Programming Competition on Hackerrank, Personal Interview (1 and half hour), Training in on the tracks (scripting, microservices).
- If you are joining as a power Programmer directly from college then you will be feeling great, as you will be paid 8 lpa, but if you are being selected after the internal examination then you will feel the level of discrimination.
- You need to be a confirm employee in order to make the role change effective, even if you clear the training earlier and have been mapped to the project. Like for me, I have complete training long ago but confirmation happened in last quarter.
- The role change will be effective in the next quarter of confirmation, but wait here is a surprise you won’t receive any salary or role change letter until quarter end and thus you will be working in the same role, till the quarter end, although after the letter arrives the role will reflect at all places and you will be paid arrears.
- Now salary you will get 35% hike in current salary which is unjust, coz you are working in company for too long now and you deserve equal rights, but every time you will raise this question you will get an epic reply: “we have budget constraints and we are working on bridging the gap”, and they will never acknowledge that they are doing it on purpose, coz if there are budget constraints then they must not be recruiting more batches rather they will try to bridge the gap first. Well they don’t care so…
- There will be makeathons, monthly meetups and you will get the chance to meet people from the higher positions, learn from their experiences and much more. You will be values (except when it comes to salary).
Many Power Programmers are leaving company, and many are waiting for CTC, and its not their fault, because if you are loyal and still being discriminated then you can’t stay loyal for long, you will quit eventually. And trust me on this if you can crack Infy’s Power Programmer competition then you can crack the competitions from most of the major companies.
And now you know the truth, thus you will understand why I have answered it anonymously.