Pros
Started as RAW fresher when I was picked in campus interview. 1st year was very tough as training was hard and pressure was very high. During training, we received many and only challenges. There was no excuse. You have to do it, means you have to do it. Stay late, work on weekends and still can't finish do night out. In 6 months after training, I transformed as 1.5 years experience Android developer and not only the core programming - I was able to do very complex solutions. After 2 years I surprised myself in implementing sound engineering, getting into Android OS and making OS level changes which probably Qualcomm and Samsung engineers will shy off. As there are very few normal mobile app development, and most of focus is on challenging solution - technical growth is very high. I can sense that I have the X factor and that differentiator I would not have got in other companies. Just left WINIT for my career growth and wanted to stay close to my hometown near Delhi. But when I look back the initial training and the opportunities I got - it made me 2 years ahead of all my batch-mates & friends in Google, Samsung and IBM. Not only development, I also was exposed in client management and played part of project lead when many might have worked as Software Developer. WINIT was an impactful journey and made be sound, strong in my specialization and gives me confidence that I can take any assignment in future. After 1st year, my perk was industry standard and after 2nd year I was above industry standard. Had I decided to stay by not choosing to stay in DELHI (with my mother), I would have been enjoying a fat salary. Thank You.
Cons
Initial pressure during training is high. Most of us realized its for betterment for our career only, but I saw two three people who couldn't catch up. I don't the right solution to handle it, but I believe - it needs to alter. May be more counselling from HR, technical growth path and some thing that I am missing must be added to make everyone feel better. The starting salary is low and also needs to look at. Till 1st 12 months, there is dissatisfaction. Of course we all realized, once we started performing, there was no limit on appraisal. We saw QA getting 9+ lakhs in 3 years and developers scaling even higher. But when you start you don't see these and I think this should be worked out.
