Back to Syntel Mumbai..........

A post after a long hiatus... have been trying to settle back into the fast paced Mumbai life after the calm and quiet one of Brighton.

The first thing that hit me was.. yes.. you guessed it dirt. Construction seems to be going on everywhere. Stayed with a couple of friends in Marol(for the uninitiated, a location very close to the international airport) and the main road that cuts through the market is still in construction.

Withing SEEPZ(that's where I work.. it probably provides more jobs per square metre of land than any other part in India!!!) the construction seems to have engulfed everything. New buildings.. new roads... and the works....

Coming inside the office, I almost failed to recognise the place... 90% faces are new, and I would love to bring any Syntel official to unit 89(which houses AmEx engagement) who says that attrition is under control. And in true Syntel tradition, more and more machines have been crammed into the already overcrowded unit. Everytime I leave my seat I come back to see the chair gone... the chairs in this unit can easily beat Houdini at his own game.

This is appraisal season and as usual, a few promises are being made. The date for releasing the letters has already been missed and there's no sign of the letters coming out anytime soon. And then people would start leaving in hordes... the same story is repeated every year.