Do’s and Dont’s at Mysore campus

Here are a couple of things you need to keep in mind before dropping of to Infosys Mysore campus:

Things you should carry along to campus:

1. Your formal wear, at least 5 of them
2. some casual wear for saturdays and sundays. i would recommend atleast 3-4.
3. matching Ties(very important as without ties you are not allowed in GEC), socks,belts
4. A pair of each formal and casual shoes
5. A guitar if you love playing one.
6. Ipods are absolutely must if you dont wanna go insane with all the studies(everybody needs to relax with some quality music)
7. Tennis,badminton,squash rackets if you play(Squash is an amazing game you should try)
8. Most importantly carry a credit or international debit card so that you can pay your expenses for the first month. also you will not get laundry coupons if you dont have a credit/debit card.

Things you may or may not carry(as you can buy them in campus):

1. nail cutters
2. pens, pencil, copies and all kinds of stationary
3. your face washes and creams(but if its  a rare product you should carry along)
4. Umbrellas/rain coats.. rains in Mysore is like sand in desert.. its everywhere and there is hell lot of it.

Things you should not bring:

1. LAPTOPS
2. cds/dvds/pendrives most data carriers excluding phones and iPods.
3. Towels and bed sheets(you ll be provided with them).
4. Soaps, mugs,etc

Here is a list of things you should not do in Mysore campus

1. Smoking inside your hostel rooms, every room has a smoke sensor, you ll be in trouble
2. Roaming late night on campus roads with your new girl/boy friend.. Your parents might not like the idea (kiddin).
3. Do not enter the campus gates when you are drunk, some people were to pass the drinking test while entering, they got caught and were taken to infy campus medical clinic and were made to pay heavy penalties.
4. i wont say Don’t play games in your PC’s but please do not get caught(fines ranging from 3,000 to 5,000)
5. Please do not push the security alarms and run away for fun(we use to do it), there are security cc cameras that are recording these stupidities..I got caught once..it was ugly :>
6. No smoochy smoochy on Infosys campus roads 

Here is what you will find in infosys campus:

1. There are 3-5 ATM centers namely GEC(Global education center), ILI, ECC(Employ care center), Food Courts.
2. Almost every hostel has a attached Laundromat where you can iron your clothes yourself and also get them washed in machines
3. Reception where you ll get tickets for Laundromats, recently tickets are made available at Laundromats itself.
4. There are at least one cycle stand in front of every major building, Mysore campus has more than 2000 cycles
5. There are 3 SDB(Software Development centers), the senior folks sit in these centers and work their ass off to bring infy money to build campuses like Mysore Infosys campus
6. In your room you find coffee mugs, LCD screen, a nice bed, an Elmira, a electronic safe box, a study table, a chair, a sofa, a full size mirror, an awesome bathroom, a boiler, an extra chair, blankets and pillow, an AC(you ll never feel the need to use it).
7. There are 3 or 4 courier services available to send and receive packages to and from home. it costs decent.
8. There is a reliance web world,, my recommendation is don’t use it,, rather go for cyber cafe’s outside,, they don’t even allow to attach your mobile devices to their PC’s in Reliance web world.
9. There are large no of cafes in every food court there are 6 food courts, my favorite was near hostel 79.

Source : http://www.allaboutinfosys.com/dos-and-donts-at-mysore-campus/

Multiplex in Infosys Mysore

The 4 screen multiplex in Infosys Mysore is used to screen movies during weekends as well as hold various events one of which is the Initiation of a new batch of trainees. This is what Infosys has to say about the multiplex:

The Multiplex in the campus boasts of a 4-screen digital cinema which is in a geodesic dome and auditorium complex with a capacity of 1,500 seats. Its built over a State-Of-Art Architecture which makes it one of a kind. It comes with an excellent DTS sound system.

The Infosys Multiplex is located near the Employee Care Center(ECC) which is at the heart of the Infosys Mysore DC(Development center). The ECC is built on Spanish architectural lines and houses a gymnasium, badminton courts, table tennis, & squash courts, pool tables, aerobics center, swimming pool, Jacuzzi, bowling alley, climbing wall, meditation hall, bank, Laundromat, company store and 5-bed medical center(phew!).

The largest of the screens(Screen-4) has a capacity of 1040 while the rest of the screens have a capacity of 140. It is in Screen-4 where our Initiation was held and also where the movies are screened.

Weekend Movies:
Generally two movies are screened every weekend. One is from Hollywood while the other is a Bollywood product. In all, 3 shows of each of the movies takes place. So in all total, 6 screenings takes place. The movies screened belong to the latest batch of releases.

The tickets are available to Infosys Employees at no cost. Each of us has been given a Facilities Card which enables us to avail unlimited usage of Multiplex, lawn tennis, rock climbing etc. Rs 150 are automatically deducted from our salary for the Facilities Card.

The Rush for Tickets:
The tickets are available 2 hours before the show starts. Generally, the show timings are 2pm, 6pm and 9:30pm. On showing ones facilities card the tickets are provided. But it is not easy as it seems.

The 1040 capacity of screen 4 is small as compared to the capacity of the Mysore DC. In Mysore DC not only training takes place but also Production(in other words: Work). These Production people live outside the campus. There are in all 4 SDB’s(Software Development Blocks) in Infosys Mysore which can accommodate around 5100 software professionals. Combine this number with another 5000 (or maybe more) trainees and you get the potential target audience vying for the ticket.

So around two and half hours ago, a queue starts forming. And within no time a huge line forms. The tickets are alloted on first come first serve basis and only one ticket per person. Those in front of the queue get the privilege of watching the movie from the balcony. People further down the queue are the ones who have to crane their necks to watch the movie.

Experience in acquiring movie tickets was akin to climbing into the crowded local trains of Mumbai. Most of the line is kept outside of the multiplex. But every few minutes the glass doors are opened by the security guard for a brief period of time to let some of us in. At this moment everybody forgets that they are employees of a multinational company and starts pushing like their life depends on it. To avoid such commotion extra security guards have been posted to make sure the queue behaves and nobody sneaks in the queue.