Immersion Day 3

Immersion Day 1

Immersion Day 0

Also known as the kick start.

Update on the Offer

So finally I've got an offer from ThoughtWorks. So here is the revised list of pros and cons.

	ThoughtWorks	OrgLex
Work place	Agile practices - Great Work Culture	Startup - good opportunity to work
Effect on personal life	Flexible Timings	Oppurtunity to pursue my own Ideas
Compensation	High Pay	Average pay
Platform	.Net, Java or (unlikely)Ruby	Web Development
Long term Advantage	first hand startup experience	Learn corporate culture

Nothing really new on the topic from previous post. Just a reiteration of the facts in a tabular manner and also wanted to tell you that till now I tended a bit towards Thoughtworks. Now, only if they would turn that package up a notch. :)

Update: Got a call back for my mail as I was finishing this post. So I got a very little hike from that less-than-good package to an okay-okay-types package. I'm almost happy. How about you guys? Please do speak what you want to and leave comments. You guys who bother enough to take a look at my humble blog are really important to me.

Edit: So I got a call from ThoughtWorks to remove the salary info from the blog. Yeah, I know its unusual, but I'm complying. May be because they asked my nicely ;). Hi HR(I didn't want to take your name; it's more sensitive than my salary.), if you are reading this, I would have appreciated a comment more than a call. :D

Career advise

High paying, flexible, start-up with lots of work or regular hours, good paying, normal company with great work culture?

what would you pick?

Considering, on long term I want to start my own company,

• if I take first, I get first hand startup experiance,
• if I take second, I get to know how normal comapnies work, and get the time to work on my own ideas.

Edit: Just to clarify, the first is really small company in Hyderabad with just five employees in all and the other is ThoughtWorks, B'lore.