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Why I left Wipro

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Wipro was probably my most confortable job that I ever had. I WFH, had options for work schedule(it varied every 2 weeks and I could choose or at least suggest), the job was quite easy and the paid was great.

There were different things that made me left, most important were:

  1. Nowhere to grow: I was the only guy on my city, most of them were on CDMX, the team was close and got along well(at least from my point of view) but I didn’t feel there was a career path for us, it was just solving tickets and that’s it.
  2. It was WLS job; with micro-services, working with something as WLS didn’t allowed me to keep up-to-date with the industry
  3. Free-time wasn’t defined as well: there was a calendar for wipro for holidays but since we worked for another company, the calendar wasn’t the same and we didn’t get a headsup with time(even less than 24h), also weekend shifts were scheduled every Wednesday,.
  4. Better job offer: More vacations days, lead position ,using new technologies, new team.
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Places where I have applied for jobs

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A mechanics’ teacher of one of my dearest friends once told all his class that she started 3 master but didn’t complete any of them…he wasn’t so happy to know about but that’s beside the point.

In the spirit of showcase that the CV is just the prettiest side of your job historial, I will make a list of all the places I have applied for a job regardless I got the job or not:

Year Company Output
Beginning 2011 Professor UDG Got the job
Beginning 2011 Professor Proulex Got the job
Beginning 2013 Oracle
Did 3 interviews, got 2 offers
Beginning 2013 IBM
Not even got a screening interview
Late 2015 EPAM
Got offer, rejected it
Mid 2015 Amdocs Got rejected
Mdi 2015 Oracle Got the job
Beginning 2018 Google
Not even got a screening interview
Late 2017 MyTaxi@Germany
Didn’t complete code challenge, I declined but company still interested
Mid 2018 Baxter
Got offer, asked more before accepting and didn’t heard back from them
Mid 2018 Baires dev Got rejected
Mid 2018 Oracle Got rejected
Mid 2018 MBA Teacher @ UDG
Got a job, not the same I applied
Beginning 2019 EPAM
Not even got a screening interview
Beginning 2019 Oracle
Got offer, rejected it
Beginning 2019 HCL Got rejected
Mid 2019 Professor@ITESO Not even got a screening interview
Beginning 2019 Wipro
Got the offer, accepted
Beginning 2019 Amdocs
Got offer, rejected it due to already accepted Wipro
Beginning 2019 TCS
Got offer, rejected it due to already accepted Wipro
Beginning 2019 Crossover
Applied to several positions, passed some filters, got rejected due to positions required more than initially stated
Mid 2019 Teacher @ Ms DS in UDG Got the job
Late 2019 Amdocs
Got offer and accepted =)

 

I might have left some out, probably one or two that don’t stand out.

Remember my policy about interviews, if they first contact you, you take the interview and then decide if its a good move or not.

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Why I left Oracle

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I loved Oracle, I met wonderful people there, had the best boss ever, got the chance to interact with experts on their fields and learned a lot from them.

I moved majorly because salary, when I joined I was being payed what I believe it was the top compensation for a recent grad, which was great, years passed I referred alumni to Oracle and they joined, they told me how happy they were to join and eventually we shared salaries, I was happy to know they were being payed what I believe was the top compensation for a recent grad…but they were making more money than me (nothing wrong with that, nothing against them) or my colleagues than joined at the same time, so I decided to explore the market again and saw that I could make more in another company, when I finally decided to make the move I increase little more than twice my monthly salary and almost twice the yearly one.

There were another minor factors, that were there couple of years before of that but none as important as that one.

I still love Oracle and think is a great company to be, maybe we will cross paths again, who knows.

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How did I end up teaching in CUCEI?

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I finished my 1st bachelors, graduated immediately, took a semester not enrolled to classes( but I attended) and then started my second bachelors.

In that semester off, I worked along some friends and all the directives of my campus(division) to create a festival with two branches: science and cultural.  We had weekly meetings where we presented advances and discuss the progress of it; on one of those meetings the then head of the CS department told me that there was a sick teacher and she needed to fill the vacancy, so she asked me if I could do it, at first I was reluctant since I wasn’t attracted to teach but I accepted because it was her that asked; I ended up loving the job.

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How did I end up teaching Compilers?

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When the old curriculum generations ended, I was forced to move to the new curriculum , were my old class named workshop in systems programming, got called Translators I and compilers was named Translators II.

So when I was moved over the logical choice was to continue on Translators I,I wanted to go to distributed operative systems but a teacher of translators II resigned and my head of department needed somebody to teach that class, so he offered that class and I said yes…then he requested the class to be taught on english too.

I gave the class based on Stanford compilers class, that lasted for 2 semesters =).

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How did I end up teaching in the Ms IT?

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When I applied to the MBA program I had an interview with SD, then when I graduated from the MBA, SD was selected to be one of evaluators.

We get to know each other after that, talking about work, he was the coordinator of the Ms IT program and wanted somebody to give a talk to the students about BI, I agreed to it, since is something I was working on Oracle. The conference was a success and I was invited to join the program teaching the BI class.

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How did I end up teaching in the Ms marketing direction?

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This one is a long chain of events.

The previous professor resigned of this class too close to the first class.

The coordinator asked the head of the IT department, then he asked his right hand, who asked a friend, who asked my then ex-girlfriend(now wife), who knew the topics needed for the class(CRM, BI and DS) were things I worked @ Oracle.

Then I communicated all the way to the coordinator, We talked and well I have been teaching there from 2016 to date =)

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Why I left Proulex

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I loved this job, the paid was good(better than university), benefits were goods schedule was great and most of the time I got amazing students.

The thing was that at that time I decided I wanted to do a Ms in software engineering  that required 2 years of experience on the industry, so I decided to jobhunt and since I will be at least another 2 years on GDL, I decided to take an MBA…so it was too much, working on the industry teaching part time and studying an MBA, something had to go away and Proulex got the short straw

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How did I end up teaching in the Ms in data science?

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I heard about this master coming up on mid 18 from couple of different sources, so of course I wanted to join in. I started checking who was going to be the coordinator but didn’t had luck for a while.

I Finally got lucky mid 19, via couple of students, one of them got me the email and I sent an email with my CV, after couple of weeks I got the class of programming I, and after the first semester I was asked to teach programming II.