To err is human… But can Infosys err in their own competition..??? March 20, 2009

 

Aspirations – aspire, align, achieve  

Aspirations 2020 is a unique platform introduced by Infosys as part of its Campus Connect initiative to bring the best of engineering talent from across India together to interact, enjoy and learn from each other while winning a few accolades and fame in the bargain.

Engineering students from 156 Campus Connect colleges across 14 different Zones will take up the Aspirations 2020 challenge with great zeal.

 

       Hmm, Aspirations – may be the dream project of Infosys to get the campuses connected with technology after the flop of their previous dream project Campus Connect.  I said campus connect was a flop because after the roadshow that they have done we students haven’t seen them yet in our campus to get us connected.. and now they came up something else… Aspirations - an technical colloquium intended for the campuses all over India. 

 

                Now let me come to the err. Well the competition was given great publicity and moreover the students were very excited to participate in an event that was conducted by one of the Big Daddy in the Software Industry.. yeah really a very rare chance to get..!!  

                           Many of the students got registered and finally the day of the teaser round came. Many students tried to login but they couldn’t because the site was not showing up. Another thing is that many students those have registered didn’t receive the username and password to login… (very bad..!!). The very next thing is about an event ” Quiz ” – they conducted the quiz online and the funniest thing is that almost all the students have done the quiz by Googling…. so what is the purpose with the event Quiz..??? 

                   ” Programming ” was their must-do event. But still it was a big crap because students those doesn’t know to code got it done by others skilled in it… so any deal for that event too..???????

 

                  Next, this is the very big bullz-eye which made me angry to a great extent..!! well many students did register and did participate in the event.. After the teaser round the list of the selected students were published…. And that list had the names of the students even who hadn’t even seen the aspirations competition platform but they  registered for it…. !!!! Is this fair..??? Should this happen..??? If students who haven’t participated in the competition were given more consideration why should have they conducted these type of big crap..??? 

Should the Infosys mess up with their own event..???? What the heck are they trying to show or prove..??? Trying to prove that they are just a bunch of techie show offs..????

If the same event was conducted by some students or student organizations I think it would be much and much more better than the Big Daddy’s big mess…!!!