“You will never know your limits unless you push yourself to them”

That was the exact atmosphere of entire room in which I conducted STA workshop in Bangalore. We must have seen quotes, posts and articles from recruiters and freshers, where companies refrain from hiring freshers just because they are freshers, and recruiters post job requirements for freshers and end up not hiring them, again, just because they have been told not to hire freshers.

My opinion on this (after my STA workshop) – Recruiters & Freshers, none of them are at fault. It’s the trainers in companies who are not confident enough of turning a stone into diamonds.

Before everyone came to the workshop, I did a quick check on their background, and I found I had a spread of nice people right from 0 years of experience to 8 years of experience from varied back-ground like information security, flow validation, defense personnel and people just one month out of college.

After the workshop, everyone in the room (and I quote ‘Everyone’), who were freshers in STA domain, now knew how to benchmark a STA timing tool in terms of run time & memory, how to characterize a design performance (like WNS, TNS, Frequency of a design), successfully fixed hold violations in a design (some of them were even able to identify critical paths in design) which we call as ECO (Engineering Change Order) and some advanced UNIX scripting and commands. All of these in just 3 hours of workshop and using Open Source STA tool

Below is the entire batch of 30 people, split in 2 batches of 15 people each