Nostalgia

Today, I started becoming nostalgic about the time I spent in Cypress. "The" company, that made me what I am today, the company which got me lot of life long buddies like pradeep, two satishs, kalyan, srinu, rao, murali, the company which taught me technical aspects, the company which saw me through my personal ups and downs, the company which had unique culture. I am leaving it on Monday.

The reason for this might be the mail sent by Kalyan:

"Hi all,

Looking at the last day emails from our former colleagues who left us in the past 1 year, I wondered when I’ll get such an opportunity to thank all those people who have supported and stood by me throughout my 4.75 year period here. The day has finally arrived and Today is my last day with Cypress. I feel sorry for not being able to continue my journey with Cypress. It required an external push in order to overcome the CY-inertia proving the Newton’s I law once again in my life. I have finally decided to part with Cypress and move forward in my life. This is the toughest decision in my life till date and it took couple of days for me to come in to terms with it.

I still remember the day when Pidugu called me up into his room to give the offer letter. As a fresh-grad just out of college, I was really thrilled to get an offer and signed the copy immediately without even having a cursory look into the offer document. I went and looked into the figures only when one of my friends queried about the offer details. I loved the work culture a lot and most importantly the fellow team-mates here in INDC-H and I am sure I’ll really long for such work-friendly atmosphere after leaving this place. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all the assignments that came in my way, my sincere thanks to Pidugu for showing confidence all through. I really admired the way Pidugu used to get technically involved with the team during any crisis and I loved all those brain-storming sessions we had in his office. He is no doubt a role model and huge inspiration for all of us.

I’ve had an opportunity to work for 3 different managers in my short-stint here and loved working for each one of them. Madhuri (KOD) was my first mentor when I was an intern working on NSEs verification. I sincerely thank Murali for all his support both technically and personally. I am grateful to both Pradeep and Srihari for the technical assistance and personal guidance they provided as and when needed. It was my pleasure working with most of the people in INDC-H and it has been an enriching experience for me. The team-mates here are wonderful to work with and the commitment & attitude of guys is something that I really liked. One of them just thinks that any programming language is nothing but "if, for and while" which just shows the way to look at new unconquered things and the other just accepts any work that comes in his way and finishes it with utmost zeal and dedication, even though if it was THE first time (this is about me!!!) and many others have their own unique special skills. Its so satisfying to be part of most of the successful projects executed out of INDC-H.

‘Wherever you go in Life, Leave your mark’ is my favourite tag-line. Don’t know if I was able to leave any sort of mark at Cypress, but I can confidently say that it was Cypress that left an indelible mark in my life. It's really tough to leave this cute little world.

It was really nice knowing you all and I wish you all good luck in all your future endeavours. Please do stay in touch. My contact number is: 9885265104 and my personal mail-id is kalyan.kanni@gmail.com

I am going to miss you all and this wonderful place of work a lot!!! Thank you all for your patience.

INDC-H just ROCKS……

SIgning off for now,

Kalc aka XKC

(INDC-CYberabad) "

It was truly touching mail from him. Cypress allowed me to buy a car, a series of watches and cell phones. It was fun working at Cypress, leaving the minor inconveniences. Maybe, one day I may be back in Cypress again. But, I know, no other Cypress design center is as different as what it is in Hyderabad.