Exploring Sunnyvale

Past two weeks I had a hell lot of fun. I flew in to San Jose, CA for company training along with 10 other fellow engineers from RTP. We stayed at Sunnyvale right behind Netapp campus.

On day 1, we had a meeting with our top executives. There we got a chance to interact with Netapp founders, CEO's. It was good to know their views about the company, the growth strategy and a chance to ask lots of questions too. Later in the day, we visited the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk and then Stanford university followed by amazing Hyderabaadi cuisine in Palo Alto.

Then from the following day, came the real test of our patience. We had back to back training sessions starting from 8.30am to 5pm with hardly any breaks in between. The worst part was this kindof day was going to be for 2 weeks. There was no way I could survive the loads of information.

After a couple of days, the sessions seemed better as we dived deep into the internals of netapp technolgoies, products, etc. It suddenly became interesting as we were been trained by engineers who had actually iimplemented these technologies.

We also got a chance to roam around the bay area and meet old time friends mostly Calsoftians who were now in the bay area too. On the weekend, we went to the Mystery point, Napa valley, San Francisco downtown, 17 mile drive and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

The training was a wonderful experience and it helped us in team building as well. Hope to get more of such west coast trips and have more and more fun each time.

Jai Ganesh!!