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There are two traffic signals on my way to Office. There's not a single day when my bus do not get stuck in the traffic jam, because of which the 15 minutes of journey often takes 40 minutes. So this was one particular day when sitting on the window seat I saw the signal, it was green and as if to please me the vehicles were moving smoothly but just as my bus came over the zebra line the signal turned red and lots of tut tut started to go around. Sitting near the window I started to look around to find something to interest me. There were people moving around in hurry to reach office on time. On one side of the road I saw some early employees of Big Bazar who were half heartedly opening their mega store. On other buses I could see people trying to pass their time by listening to the early morning radios. Smart phones have changed our life to a very well extent, games, musics, apps are enough to keep ourself occupied without even noticing who is sitting beside us. But then there was one person on the middle of the footpath towards the left side of the road. He was kind of short, in formals, a bag pack behind and holding some pamphlet in his hand. Nothing new in people distributing pamphlets to the commuters, but since I had nothing to do I tried to notice his activities. And for those 90 seconds I came to realise how different and difficult but very much similar his job is. He had to take desicions as quickly as he can like he has to decide where to stand so as to cover all the passers by. At one point I saw him to get to the edge of the footpath so that he can also cover those who were walking below the footpath. Many of them were refusing his pamphlet, but I could see him getting over the failure of rejection in a very quick time. I couldn't see what was there in the pamphlet but from the kind of energy he showed while distributing it one could easily be decieved there was something very important one needed to know and so he was trying hard to distribute it.
My first year experience in Mu Sigma is not less than the story of that person on the footpath at the signal. This was not a merry go round for me rather a roller coaster ride. I have seen the company growing with me (obviously with not the same pace :-P). In one of the article by Business Standard, India's analytics market will become $1.15 bn by 2015 and Mu Sigma features as the leading pure-play analytics organization. Excerpt from the article: Among the pure-play analytics vendors, Sequoia Capital and General Atlantic-invested Mu Sigma is said to be the biggest in this space. In another article which states - Decision Sciences Firm Mu Sigma Makes Inc. 5000 List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies for Third Consecutive Year. I also saw Mu Sigma CEO Dhiraj Rajaram winning 2012 Gold Stevie Award for Executive of the Year while Mu Sigma Takes Bronze for Company of the Year.
The number of Offices in Bangalore have increased. Mu Sigma started with shifting some teams to one of the most illustrious Tech Park in Bangalore which is SEZ ITPL, Whitefield, the vision is to have a huge building to accomodate more than 5000 employees but that is future let's not go in there.
With Client count increasing, I saw the employee count being doubled in the 1st year of my stay. Mu Sigma covered more Colleges this time around(2012) in the recruitment process thereby making people more inquisitive about the company. The way I was recruited one year ago and the process fresher needs to follow now is very different. I will be unable to answer correctly if asked "what kind of questions one is asked in the interview ?" or "How many rounds of recruitment process are there?" It's very different now after just one year. Training courses have also changed. Freshers are taught new topics too. Mu Sigma believes in constant learning, renewing your knowledge from time to time and hence they have started providing courses to people who have spent some time in the company as well. Work process and solutions providing has also changed a bit. Many new technologies came in apart from the traditional MS Office and SAS.
Apart from work fun is the integral part of Mu Sigma. "Do the Math" is the tagline as all of you must be knowing by now. Math is the fun in Mu Sigma, as stated by one of the article in Deccan Herald. With most of the Mu Sigmans in their 20s, fun is bound to be there, either in Office or out of Office. We have come a long way of playing Dumbcharade, Pictionary among others to play Volleyball, Football, Uno, Zenga, Treasure Hunt, etc.; and the USP is we have involved CEO too in one of these events.
Life is sometimes tough in Mu Sigma. Margin of error is very low. As in every other company you are expected to perform. But here the things are different, it's all because of the mindset. Freshers come in here with a view that they do not have to do coding but ultimately they do have to put in their programming skills to work with data so as to get the required results as they would have wanted. Most of the freshers do not have their say with their likings on the work, they got to do what their managers tell them which is not wrong in a way, they get to learn but it's kind of tough because they may not like the work so it is a "make-break" thing for them. I am not saying that staying late is tough for Mu Sigmans but we definitely hate and would like to avoid it but since it occurs once in a while and that too because of our own issue, erros and negligence, it's a learning period for all of us. Team mates are always there for help and support, so toughness are smoothened out (Others may not be as lucky as me, they may have counterview to this point).
This is a journey this does not have an end, well it may have but when that will come I do not know. Let's hope for the best because Allah knows the best!!!
There are two traffic signals on my way to Office. There's not a single day when my bus do not get stuck in the traffic jam, because of which the 15 minutes of journey often takes 40 minutes. So this was one particular day when sitting on the window seat I saw the signal, it was green and as if to please me the vehicles were moving smoothly but just as my bus came over the zebra line the signal turned red and lots of tut tut started to go around. Sitting near the window I started to look around to find something to interest me. There were people moving around in hurry to reach office on time. On one side of the road I saw some early employees of Big Bazar who were half heartedly opening their mega store. On other buses I could see people trying to pass their time by listening to the early morning radios. Smart phones have changed our life to a very well extent, games, musics, apps are enough to keep ourself occupied without even noticing who is sitting beside us. But then there was one person on the middle of the footpath towards the left side of the road. He was kind of short, in formals, a bag pack behind and holding some pamphlet in his hand. Nothing new in people distributing pamphlets to the commuters, but since I had nothing to do I tried to notice his activities. And for those 90 seconds I came to realise how different and difficult but very much similar his job is. He had to take desicions as quickly as he can like he has to decide where to stand so as to cover all the passers by. At one point I saw him to get to the edge of the footpath so that he can also cover those who were walking below the footpath. Many of them were refusing his pamphlet, but I could see him getting over the failure of rejection in a very quick time. I couldn't see what was there in the pamphlet but from the kind of energy he showed while distributing it one could easily be decieved there was something very important one needed to know and so he was trying hard to distribute it.
My first year experience in Mu Sigma is not less than the story of that person on the footpath at the signal. This was not a merry go round for me rather a roller coaster ride. I have seen the company growing with me (obviously with not the same pace :-P). In one of the article by Business Standard, India's analytics market will become $1.15 bn by 2015 and Mu Sigma features as the leading pure-play analytics organization. Excerpt from the article: Among the pure-play analytics vendors, Sequoia Capital and General Atlantic-invested Mu Sigma is said to be the biggest in this space. In another article which states - Decision Sciences Firm Mu Sigma Makes Inc. 5000 List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies for Third Consecutive Year. I also saw Mu Sigma CEO Dhiraj Rajaram winning 2012 Gold Stevie Award for Executive of the Year while Mu Sigma Takes Bronze for Company of the Year.
The number of Offices in Bangalore have increased. Mu Sigma started with shifting some teams to one of the most illustrious Tech Park in Bangalore which is SEZ ITPL, Whitefield, the vision is to have a huge building to accomodate more than 5000 employees but that is future let's not go in there.
With Client count increasing, I saw the employee count being doubled in the 1st year of my stay. Mu Sigma covered more Colleges this time around(2012) in the recruitment process thereby making people more inquisitive about the company. The way I was recruited one year ago and the process fresher needs to follow now is very different. I will be unable to answer correctly if asked "what kind of questions one is asked in the interview ?" or "How many rounds of recruitment process are there?" It's very different now after just one year. Training courses have also changed. Freshers are taught new topics too. Mu Sigma believes in constant learning, renewing your knowledge from time to time and hence they have started providing courses to people who have spent some time in the company as well. Work process and solutions providing has also changed a bit. Many new technologies came in apart from the traditional MS Office and SAS.
Apart from work fun is the integral part of Mu Sigma. "Do the Math" is the tagline as all of you must be knowing by now. Math is the fun in Mu Sigma, as stated by one of the article in Deccan Herald. With most of the Mu Sigmans in their 20s, fun is bound to be there, either in Office or out of Office. We have come a long way of playing Dumbcharade, Pictionary among others to play Volleyball, Football, Uno, Zenga, Treasure Hunt, etc.; and the USP is we have involved CEO too in one of these events.
Life is sometimes tough in Mu Sigma. Margin of error is very low. As in every other company you are expected to perform. But here the things are different, it's all because of the mindset. Freshers come in here with a view that they do not have to do coding but ultimately they do have to put in their programming skills to work with data so as to get the required results as they would have wanted. Most of the freshers do not have their say with their likings on the work, they got to do what their managers tell them which is not wrong in a way, they get to learn but it's kind of tough because they may not like the work so it is a "make-break" thing for them. I am not saying that staying late is tough for Mu Sigmans but we definitely hate and would like to avoid it but since it occurs once in a while and that too because of our own issue, erros and negligence, it's a learning period for all of us. Team mates are always there for help and support, so toughness are smoothened out (Others may not be as lucky as me, they may have counterview to this point).
This is a journey this does not have an end, well it may have but when that will come I do not know. Let's hope for the best because Allah knows the best!!!
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Hey Bro...I must say Its Awsomly scripted nd neatly phrased...Good work, Though I din knw much abt MuSigma, I understood d Work culture u hav n its grt..long or sort all company follow somthing similar, get d work done n let d people enjoy..Good stuff.. keep blogging..May allah bless u d Best.. :)
PS:- d story of d pumplet distributer taught me well, nw i understood y nt to bother on failure n Rather to focus on next target despite of ur failure..
a masterpiece...!!!!
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