Nagarro Tried to Settle Me in Business Intelligence (BI) and DevOps

Hello friends,

I am a developer.

I was trained in development, and I truly enjoyed coding.

But at that time, Nagarro didn’t have any developer vacancies, so they tried to place me in Business Intelligence (BI).

I did some research on BI and realized it wasn’t a development role. So, I refused Nagarro’s offer.

My ex-team lead warned me, saying, “If you keep sitting on the bench and keep rejecting projects like this, Nagarro will fire you.”

But by then, I had become fearless, living life with a mindset of: "Whatever happens, we’ll see!"

After that, Nagarro tried to push me into DevOps. Today, DevOps is a hot field—great scope, good money—but back then, it wasn’t as big.

DevOps felt somewhat related to development, so I spent a day with the team and initially felt okay with it.

But there, I met a godsent person who guided me and said,
“Bro, DevOps is good, no doubt. But if your heart is in development, don’t switch.
Because today you’ll join DevOps out of compulsion, but you'll regret it your whole life thinking: I could’ve been a developer, but I became a config manager instead.”

So I also refused the DevOps offer from Nagarro.

Obviously, everyone thought I was just enjoying a free salary and kept rejecting one project after another, and that Nagarro would soon fire me.

But I wasn’t scared at all—because I was confident I’d become a developer—if not at Nagarro, then somewhere else. I had already started building web apps using .NET on the side.

I was just waiting to complete one year so I could start giving interviews with the “1-year experience” tag.

And since my CTC was just ₹3.5 LPA, I was a cheap resource for Nagarro, so they weren’t in any hurry to fire me.

Finally, I was offered a development project.

I thought it would be in .NET, but it turned out to be in Java.

It felt like God had reunited me with my first love.

I didn’t have any knowledge of Spring or Spring Boot, but I told the director that I knew Java and had experience in development.

For three days—day and night—I sat down and learned how to build REST APIs in Spring Boot from YouTube (a channel named javabeans), how to connect to a database, how to write layered code, and built a solid POC, which I presented. Then I started working on the project.

After sitting idle for 8 months, I had so much fire inside me—so much fire—that I decided I would become the most badass developer in Nagarro.

And I gave it everything—day and night—to prove myself in development at Nagarro.