3/8/2007 It's time for Training and Holiday

Posted at: 3/8/2007 at 7:35 AM by saravana

I'm taking my family (my wife Gowri and our little son, 3 months old Aryaa) for a long 4.5 weeks holiday in India. For the first time I'm going to test out some training in India. I booked myself for .NET 2.0 distributed apps training bootcamp, an intencive 10 day training program (6 days a week and 10 hours a day).  After moving to UK 7 years ago, this is the first time I'm doing a proper training in India. I'll try to post some updates on how the course is progressing, and whether its worth utilizing portion of my holidays for training in India. I visit India atleast once a year to see my parents, close relatives and friends. So, if it works out, then it will be the most cost effective way for me to do some training, which will enable me to do more training for the same budget. 

Nandri!

Saravana

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Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:06 PM
Bernabe
Bernabe
Hope you have a good vacation with your family...

Btw, get away if you meet a boy called tsunami around chennai again ;)

Best regards
Friday, March 16, 2007 8:59 AM
Beatriz
Beatriz
It is great read news about you! Hope you have best holidays with your familiy.

And I hope to see you soon, I´m thinking to travel to UK in short term. I´ll let you know.

Regards
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:55 PM
Benjy
Benjy
Hi,
How was the training in India? Any good? Im thinking of doing something similar later this year. Im from chennai too but live in london, UK now and would be interested to know where you took the course and its costs and quality etc.

cheers,
benjy
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:39 AM
Saravana Kumar
Saravana Kumar
Hi Benjy,
I was thoroughly disappointed by the quality of training I received. Instructor’s knowledge level was absolute minimum, and some cases they were giving student’s completely wrong information based on their own understanding. I ended up changing trainer every 2 days (3 in totals) and at the end; I was forced into a situation to do self study. The fees is ridiculous as well, they speak only in American dollars for everything. Things like books ($20 minimum), mobile phones hire ($25), laptop hire ($50) etc. If you want to do one of the MCSE system engineering course then probably you are bit safe, because they doing it for ages. But on the other side if you want to do something new like .NET 2.0, SQL 2005 etc then you are for sure screwed. I even heard from one of the instructors unofficially they are marketing a BizTalk 2006 certification program even without an instructor, once they got a batch of student then they'll go and hire some one on contract basis.

They ripped me off really in terms of fees. I paid around £1000 for 12 days. I ended up doing self study and leaving the course on 8th day. They didn't refund any money.

Overall it’s a rip off. This is just my experience, with one institution. There might be genuine one's out there. But it’s a risk.

Saravana
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:42 AM
Anonymous
Anonymous
Hello Saravana,

I am also going to Chennai next month and plan to take biztalk course if possible. Did you find any good institue which teach Biztalk? Pls advice. I found one in Bangalore(seamless.in) but not sure about the quality.

Nandri

Madarasi

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