Sanradiance a company where I started my career & I got chance to grow in IT industry

I think in this recession when many people are struggling to get jobs if I can share some of my experience it may help someone. It may motivate someone to push themself until they get a job & win in their career. People try to find easy excuses saying there are not many jobs , they are not getting interview calls or they are not being shortlisted for interview.

I'm an Engg graduate passed out in 2005 , Ever since i joined my engg i wanted to do something. I didn't wanted to get into same old  C,C++,JAVA coding or even do white box or black box testing. Neither was I interested in Database. But still i was interested in Technical job and ONLY technical job which I was passionate about. When i shared this with some of my friends everyone said there is something wrong with me .As many of my friends were interested to get into development profile jobs me not showing interest in that made me like an outlaw.

So once I was out of college I started the task of job hunting . I was brainstorming about which company and what job profile , what would me my job role and responsibilities etc . As a fresher

i updated my resume in job portals,

I kept applying for many companies through referrals & also in person ,

I tried all my known contacts for getting an interview from some company atleast but

for more than 3 months there were no calls & some consultants were calling but I was never getting shortlisted for interview schedule.

Then I worked on improving my resume , thought what does the IT industry expect from a fresher, which company is hiring freshers & what kind of interviews are happening, which topics are hot & what keywords & trends are getting jobs for people out of college. I did spend 1 more month on this research & based on many facts improved my resume & worked hard all the while to make sure I'm perfect in all that I've mentioned in my resume. I've put myself in strict regime to study, do hands on labs on many tech assignments & kept myself pushing to prepare on all the areas expected to be asked in a software job requirement interview.

I got many calls once I uploaded my resume , I did attend in Mindtree technologies, Tavant, Quest but in none of them I was able to complete all technical interview rounds. Then I got a call from Sanradiance Technologies for interview 

I didn't have much idea about the projects they do, what company is this. They had a written technical test thankfully no puzzles or no aptitude test. i cleared this written test then there was 2 more rounds of technical face to face interview. I cleared both and that’s the end of my job hunting process. I was through the interview process.  Finally after so many months of preparation & running around so many companies I got a Software job. I was enthused & was thrilled I felt like I've won a thousand dollar jackpot.

It was a Storage technology domain based company, with a lot of testing or quality assurance involved of network  data storage products. Basically i got to understand the concepts of storage ,networking, enterprise data centre & work on some of the scenarios to test a product in such an enviroment.

As a fresher the company gave me a scope of learning protocols of NAS,SAN,FC SAS,SATA,FC,iSCSI. Trust me it was more interesting topics rather than those old text books of engg. It was more in practical. I was more exposed to hardware products running on these protocols. This gave a thirst to learn about the Storage technology and specially Data Centre management.

As I was in storage domain it is equally important to have very good technical knowledge in operating system(O.S.) , If i want to be O.S. specific then i had to gain more knowledge on Linux OS(FC/OPENSUSE/RHEL/centos) then Windows(W2K3/windows Storage server). The O.S. knowledge helps a lot in storage domain. This is required for any data storage provisioning, troubleshooting process etc.

I got to work on many interesting projects (This is on storage technology domain, not everybody can understand this if your reading it for first time)

We worked on a project involving NanoNAS. NanoNAS is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server Operating System designed to transform a basic computer into a dedicated HTTP, SMB/CIFS or AFP file server.

Using readily available inexpensive components, it is not difficult to build a very capable NAS server using NanoNAS. As a network file server, NanoNAS may very well offer the highest possible storage capacity for the money. NanoNAS servers offering multiple Terabytes of storage space can be built for little more than the cost of the necessary fixed disk drives.

For example, with NanoNAS you can take a standard desktop computer, install eight 400GB fixed disk drives, and have a fast, reliable 3.2 Terabyte NAS file server for a very reasonable cost. 

Due to company’s policies and regulations I will not be disclosing much details of projects I worked on. I spent a lot of time, put in all my efforts to understand the product, its features, their configuration & then testing and identifing the bugs of these products.

For me 3 ½ years working for Sanradiance technologies has given me the storage domain, OS knowledge and lots of confidence. Having this kind of exposure and knowledge I feel I’m lucky and I make can be succesful in my career .I want to thank everyone who supported me in my career growth & want to thank Sanradiance technology company for the opportunity.

Don't loose your confidence. Just have faith & dont give hope. It's all about being at the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing. Wish you all the luck and hope you get a software job soon. Dont worry you will get interview calls make sure you are prepared well to win the opprtunities.