Finance has evolved to position itself as an important business function. Given the nature of this domain, it overlaps with analytics in many areas. Finance professionals and executives are finding new ways to leverage from this overlap and increase the value of this vertical in their organizations.
What is your professional background?
I had completed my MBA from Tapmi School of Business in the year 2015. I then joined Vodafone and worked as a Relationship Manager for 10 months. I switched to HDFC and worked for over 1.75 yrs as an Assistant Manager. Currently, I am working with Cognizant as a Programmer Analyst.
Why did you think of upskilling? Why did you choose Great Learning?
I did an MBA with Finance as my specialization and while working with HDFC, I enrolled myself in Financial Risk Course with IIM Kashipur. Though I had good knowledge in Finance Domain, I had no understanding of Coding or Data Science. I felt the need to upskill and checked for the courses. While searching I found high recommendations for GL. So I left my job in Jaipur and moved to Bangalore to pursue a full-time program in Data Science Engineering with Great Learning.
What did you like most about the program?
The management, staff, and the faculty, everyone was very helpful. The faculty took a great deal of interest in teaching students and gave a good explanation of every topic. The management was very supportive in providing any assistance whenever the batch needed extra sessions or special classes for having a better understanding of the programming subjects.
How was your overall experience at Great Learning?
Since I was from a non-programming background, initially it was a bit difficult to follow the specific modules. But later with the help of faculty, I could cope up with the subjects and it became easier to understand and manage. The faculty was very helpful in providing material and guidance, especially in my lacuna. They took extra effort in organizing classes over those areas during the weekends. Since I was very new to Data Science, I had to improvise a lot in terms of my CV & Interview performance. The Career assistance provided by GL helped me prepare an impressive CV & mock interviews prepped me to crack interviews.
Share your experience of Career fair organized by GL?
I got to interview with 3 companies; Kinara Capital, Credi India, and Cognizant. I cleared the interview with CTS which involved 3 rounds; 2 in Technical of 45 minutes duration each and 1 HR round of interview on the same day. The technical interviews involved testing my knowledge of Machine learning. I got the job confirmation on the same day.
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