My Road to Maruti Suzuki

Before writing about Maruti let me tell something about my road to Maruti.

I am an automobile engineer who never dreamt to start my carrier with auto sector. In fact I wasn’t a kind of a guy who was very much interested in Auto before joining the course. I took this stream because I don’t want to be in one among the junk. I wanted to be different & (may be another reason is) there was a sudden boom in this sector and (one more reason) I never liked electrical or electronics, which I feel a study where people should assume that something is happening inside a wire and predict this will happen. (After very long mathematical calculations). I really hated it as I never cared to learn even in school. But I remember Ms. Padma, my Chemistry teacher saying."most of you guys will dream that you will be flying in cars when you are starting your career, but the reality is not that. Remember. Stop dreaming and learn." I sometimes felt that she was pointing me and said. But the reality is I am really flying with cars, as I deal only with cars, the sexiest of all things on earth. I wish one day I meet her and take her in my car fly at speed more than 200 km/h yet she feels comfortable and safe.

In South India it is a pride to say I am software engineer than a Mechanical Engineer. Actually the parents are the happiest & proudest people then the student. Like my friends I also wanted to take computer stream (May be because it was considered a cream job). But I understood that IT is an everybody’s game and the college that one studies does matter. (I mean it is not really restricted to IT engineers, open ground to all). I was interested in pursuing Biotechnology (a fancy study, when I was in school). Some of my friends still remember the “bioinformatics” topic that (I read in news paper) I kept talking about it. I remember the day when I was supposed to select my engineering stream, my dad even just a few minutes before I completed the application form asked me again and again to rethink on my decision to take automobile engineering as he knew none of our relatives or his friends know about it. In fact one of my close relative even said, only sons of auto bigwigs study the course and it could be a dead zone if you are not landing up a job. May be that is the first risk that I took in my life. I went on my way. But I remember telling my dad, “Dad I do not know what you ll do, if I am not landing up in a job you are getting me a good university for Higher education abroad”.

I am the only guy in my family to take this course. I was really proud when there were some of my relatives’ added auto engineering to their most prefer list after seeing me. (Nice to see people follow)

College life went cool. I really did not study much hard but life in hostel and PSG Tech is a real experience. It taught me many things especially how to handle with people. And why there is a separate field which studies to understand the human mind(I mean the MBA and micro, nano economics). As expected I first got placed in Software Company(I was happy and satisfied too), and then after 2 months and attending 2 other reputed company interviews (and getting screwed) I finally got placed in Maruti. I did not find the interview too technical to handle, they were of general topics and some advanced technologies in auto sector. I had a light confidence after interview, but after final announcements wow! I was not on the earth for a while. I was really flying. Getting into Maruti is a remarkable leap in my life, my best achievement too