After a great dancing night with only little sleep we were about to leave Pune. Only a short trip was required to arrive at the Pune airport and we had to say goodbye to our drivers of the last few days.
The check-in and security-check procedure was very annoying and crowded but finally we boarded to the plane which was in a surprisingly good condition.
Only 80 minutes later we arrived at the very modern airport of Bangalore. The airport was built in 2008 and looks really different to anything we have seen so far in India.
A new bus and new drivers were already waiting for us and took us to our next visit at Cognizant.
Followed by the check-in we were brought to the meeting room at the “carpet floor”. The whole floor was pretty impressive. Everything looked veryluxurious and modern.
The first presentation, held by Srikanth Srinivasan from the human resources departement, was mainly about the management layout of Cognizant and how the firm is placed in the market. Afterwards his associate Symu Koul took over and introduced the department of “Quality Engineering & Assurance” which is essentially responsible for testing and is the largest outsourcing partner for testing worldwide (1.6 billion USD total revenue). Mr. Koul impressively explained how much money gets lost, due to software errors and lack of testing.
Finally we went to a different room where a presentation about IT Infrastructure Services was held. At one side of the meeting room there was a huge milky glass wall which we didn’t really noticed, until the glass got transparent and we could finally see behind the curtain… erm glass wall. There was a huge round 24×7 service center with approximately 50 IT technicans. This was the end of our visit at Cognizant.
The bus took us to our new hotel, the Vivanta by Taj. The expectations were very high because we were told it will be the best rated hotel we visited so far… and our expectations were even exceeded. The hotel is just amazing!
You will probably hear more about the hotel tomorrow. It’s 10pm right now… we are going to have a drink at the hotelbar. Cheers!