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I joined TCS as a fresher. Felt like my life was finally sorted. I was so happy during my training that I felt I could stay in TCS forever. After completing my training and joining my base location, first thing I did was to set up my profile on all Job Search apps and websites and started searching for another Job.Here’s what happened!I was good in academics. Loved developing logics,coding etc. I was passionate about my field and I wanted to Learn,Grow and Contribute. Some people told me not to settle down for TCS as it’s not the right place for me.Still…TCS had the brand name and I was in a private college. That was enough for me to underestimate my potential and think that TCS was the best I could get. ( And what could be so wrong with it anyway? )Our seniors told us not to worry about the recruitment drive because they will take almost everyone and little do they care about what you know and what you don’t, just be decent with your English and you’ll be in (Even then I did not get the idea that I was making a mistake).I gave my 100% , worked hard on my technical skills and prepared well. I got selected. And those who did not prepare at all also got selected.Their training is like a Sugar Bait. They say training is for your professional transformation. But actually it is there for 3 purposes:They pay for some of your expenses during training so that they can put you under a bond amount of 50,000 and they call it Service Agreement.They waste 3 months of your first job so that it is even harder for you to switch after joining the “Actual TCS”.They give you an impression that you are working in the BEST company in the WORLD! So that you at least stick around for those 3 months.They know genuine people are not going to want to continue so they prepare for it beforehand.I performed pretty well in training. Because it wasn’t that challenging. Most of the crowd had no idea about Coding. It was very easy to emerge as a star performer. I was happy, without realizing the fact there is no growth without challenges.I got top rating in training and I felt that was enough for me to land on a good Project and it would be a good start for my career!I joined my base location at Pune. I was very happy and excited. Ready for giving interviews in projects. We were taken inside a cabin. The RMG (career spoilers of TCS) told us something which I can never forget and that actually Transformed me from a care-free College Student to a dedicated career-oriented Professional.Here it goes.“Be Thankful that you are working in such a great Company! Rest of your friends are roaming around unemployed. So we have decided a project for you and you better not show any resistance in joining otherwise we will stop your pay. Five associates are already on loss of pay”That finally made me realize what a huge mistake I had made. I was working for a Company that did not hire me for my Quality but just to increase it’s Quantity.I knew the project that required such a talk before it’s introduction was a good-for-nothing-project which no one wants to join. I wasn’t wrong.It was on a client location having no facilities that other TCS employees get. No canteen. No travel option. Even the HR visited only once in every 3 months. These things can be ignored if you have a growth option in the project. But No! Just copy paste work, repetitive and no challenges. Technologies were the ones that appeared 60 years ago. The crowd was a bunch of people who have spent 15–20 years of their lives working in the same project, doing the same thing over and over again and they did not feel a fresher & that too a girl had the right to follow her passion.I tried to fight for myself. Told them I wanted to work on latest technologies. I was good in technical, I wanted to learn and grow. I said I deserved a better project. I said I wanted something challenging and good. I joined thinking they would appreciate my skills and put me in the right place. I even proved my worth during training (I knew there were good projects and I could clear the interviews but I was never given a chance! I wish I had realized my potential earlier). But all they could say was:“You are a fresher and You have signed a bond. You don’t get to decide all this. You being better than others in technical doesn’t matter. We can MOLD you into anything we want. And you must continue in that. Even if you don’t like the technology, you’ll get used to it. Work for 2 years over here and then MAYBE we will listen to you.”They used to laugh when I would tell them working on old technologies and having no growth would spoil my career.“Since when did freshers start deciding what’s good for their career? At least wait for 2 years”“We are working in the (same) project (seriously! duh!) for the past 20 years and we know what’s good for you (really?)”So basically they wanted me to kill my ambition, kill my passion and accept working in an unsatisfactory environment on age old technologies and majorly do just copy paste work. And maybe after spending (wasting) 2 years of my life I would be able to have a say in choosing what kind of Job I want to do.Well, the mistake was ultimately from my side. I underestimated myself and landed in such a company.I finally resigned. Got into a product-based company. They took 3 very difficult interviews and I cleared all. I felt satisfied that they actually wanted me for the Quality and not the Quantity. Now I’m working on Latest technologies. Directly developing new features in the product (from the very first day of joining). I am a fresher and there is no discrimination here. After working here for the last 3–4 months I’ve learnt much more than I ever could if I had stayed back in TCS. (And yes I also get paid more! And Yes I am a fresher)Now I’m happy, satisfied, and I love what I do.Moral: It’s never too early to be ambitious and serious about your career. It’s never too early to take a stand.Going anonymous because it’s just not just my story. There are various others who face similar issues.Edit: So many upvotes! thanks a lot everyone for your encouragement.Well, some of you asked what to do for product based companies.DATA STRUCTURES is the most important subject for that. And keep in mind that they expect you to start contributing from the very first day so they may put into scenario based rounds and ask you to solve tricky problems. Don’t take stress about giving the correct answer quickly!. Be calm and think about it rationally. Take your time and tell them what’s going on in your mind. They want to see your approach that’s all! Be thorough with basics.Also, please read Tushar Kanti Mishra’s reply on this thread. He has explained why such companies are good for nothing even when you have the “ZEAL to learn and explore things”. It’s definitely not important to start with something big. One can start slow and have a steady progress as well. But a place which pulls you BACK is never the right place for you.On our project site we had no access to internet (it wasn’t allowed). The Operating system was so old that only few things worked on it. Like putty and notepad! I went and complained about the internet then they provided remote access for 1–2 days. I did few courses on TCS website and made few programs on java online and that was enough for them to call a meeting and tell me that I am not supposed to do all that. So the situation is not always ideal for everyone.

From a purely political standpoint, there actually are not a lot of considerations to be made regarding this kind of technology in its infancy. This is because our civilization doesn’t have the need for that technology at this particular moment in our development. It’d be like introducing the idea of the Internet to Egyptians shortly after they developed papyrus scrolls.I’m sure,if you could explain it properly, the Pharaoh and his advisers could accept the potential of having access to such technology, but that wouldn’t change the fact that they would be generations upon generations away from being able to develop the infrastructure to make any good use of it.That isn’t to say that faster-than-light travel isn’t a very real aspiration, but if it were announced tomorrow that we could break the Universe’s speed limit – to say nothing of going 10,000c as this question supposes – once the excitement over such a discovery faded, we’d be left wondering, “So what do we do with this?” Because even if we made the technological discovery, someone would have to create the machinery needed to make it functional.In the first few years of this technology, people would still be trying to figure out just how to use it, and there aren’t many political problems or pressures inherent in that.The scientific community could, of course, come up with a laundry list of things that it would like to do with such technology, and the proposals that floated to the top would probably drive further development. But if there were any political implications regarding their wish-list, it would only be in determining which of their proposed projects was funded with government money.The cost of a hyperdrive of the kind imagined by the question would almost certainly come at a cost that would dwarf any scientific endeavor undertaken by humanity, and is so beyond our ability to grasp that I can’t even begin to put a reasonable dollar figure behind it.Even if the technological discovery were so remarkable that we learned we could make a rudimentary hyperdrive based on existing technology – perhaps like the potential of the EmDrive, except several orders of magnitude greater – there would still need to be a large investment of capital to actually create the spacecraft, and with commercial spaceflight taking off (*rimshot*), it’s not at all certain that the project would end up requiring government backing.It’s certainly probable that what would eventually emerge would be a public-private partnership between governments and private firms developing the technology, with various use agreements emerging. Some of these might require new or amended laws to accommodate, but these aren’t big problems to overcome.But down the track, what seems more likely to happen is that a bunch of venture capitalists and billionaires would look at the results of the privately-funded demonstration projects (and maybe a NASA probe or two) and decide that asteroid mining has just become economical. Traveling just at the speed of light puts the asteroid belt – and its trillions of dollars of precious metals – a mere 18 to 25 minutes away, so there would be less of a need to move it back to Earth for efficient mineral extraction.Suddenly, there might be a race among corporations to send out FTL probes to all the known, precious asteroids to lay claim to them, and here’s where the political implications begin.The 1967 Outer Space Treaty prevents nations from claiming celestial objects, but it’s generally accepted that there’s no prohibition on persons or private entities from laying claims. The corollary to that, however, is that there’s also no internationally agreed upon process for people and entities to make those claims, and for those claims to be honored.Case in point, you might not know that the Moon – in its entirety – has been “claimed” by one Dennis Hope. He asserted his ownership of the Moon in 1980, and has been selling plots of lunar land for decades, allegedly earning millions of dollars in the process. What’s going to happen to those claims when we’re able to get to the Moon as conveniently as going into a major city?What happens if people – or, in particular, companies – get the idea to just start claiming asteroids? Who has the right to mine an asteroid?Right now, we’re able to put these considerations aside as mostly intellectual debates because, as of now, nobody can realistically reach the Moon or Mars or the asteroids in order to literally stake a claim. But if we were to suddenly (or at least within a few decades) realize faster-than-light travel, and it was attainable by several corporate entities, we might find ourselves confronted with a very messy celestial gold rush if politicians did not get ahead of the technology (which almost never happens, so expect messiness).This video sets up the issues pretty well (to include a very interesting First Contact scenario):The worst possible outcome of a political failure in this space would be corporations building up paramilitary wings in order to forcefully defend their claims. This could set up a very, very messy precedent for how other worlds are colonized, with various factions bringing along heavy hardware "just in case" someone decides that they're sitting on valuable property and tries to take it.On either side of the race to the asteroids, the first companies to be able to turn a profit on the mineral exploitation would stand to become extremely wealthy. Their wealth and role in sustaining the world’s demand for rare and precious metals could make them political power players. This why you’ll find that a lot of contemporary science fiction set in the near-future (if not further) speculates governments being subverted by mega corporations – it’s not just commentary on the current influence of corporations in politics.But I think OP was looking at the bigger (and more distant) picture and supposed a future where lots of people could move vast distances in the same amount of time as most of us might move to a new house on the other side of the state or country we already live in.Going back to the Outer Space Treaty, with no nation being permitted to lay claim to celestial bodies, technically any person or people taking up residence on another planet would be outside the sovereign control of any Earth-bound nation, unless the colonists specifically aligned themselves to that nation in whatever charters/constitutions they drafted for themselves.It’s hard to imagine that their ties to Earth would be anything other than commercial, as whatever politics gripped the homeworld’s attention would have extremely little bearing on the affairs of the newly settled planet, rapid transportation or not.But revisiting our earlier discussion, it's highly unlikely that these settlers would be common folk like you and I are - or, at least, they wouldn't be sponsoring their own ride. With exception of projects like Mars One that pursue colonization of the stars for its own sake, most trips to-and-from other worlds are likely going to be reserved for employees of corporations exploiting said celestial bodies (eg, Why humans were on Pandora in Avatar).This is the same way that most Europeans arrived in the Americas: as indentured servants (and side-stepping how Africans came to the Americas).Now, depending on how terrible the working conditions are in the mines, and how much authority the corporations sponsoring their laborers assert, there might have to be political intervention to ensure humans are treated humanely no matter how far from the core of humanity they are; but that raises issues of enforcement. Perhaps in a system where it only takes a matter of minutes for a government assessor to show up at a Martian mine to check on conditions, it wouldn't be a problem; but what might happen as companies go farther and farther away from Earth?Returning to Avatar (a below-FTL universe), references to shareholders not appreciating dead Na'vi might also have been in consideration of RDA's legal responsibilities to preserve extraterrestrial culture; but with an 11-year round trip, who was going to enforce that? The same issue would apply the farther we travel from the core of authority. Political structures as we know them only make sense within our Solar System.So far, all we’ve been talking about is the movement of matter over far distances in the blink of an eye. The question has not hypothesized the development of technology that allows information to travel faster than the speed of light. This means that while, given the technology of the question, prospective settlers might be able to make it to the newly discovered “Earth 2.0” in about seven weeks, it would still take 1,400 years for a signal to reach them (or us from them) by traditional methods.This is because the speed of light, while the Universe's natural speed limit, is not actually all that great for covering the vastness of the Universe. This video takes you on a true, "speed of light" journey from the Sun to Jupiter. Runtime: 45 minutes, 1 second.Granted, that's a lot faster than it currently takes us to get to Jupiter from Earth, but it's still not fast enough to sustain effective communications with prospective settlements beyond our Solar System.So we might imagine, then, that information would be packaged and couriered across the cosmos by the FTL ships, much in the way that mail was couriered by ships across the Atlantic between the colonies and Europe on ships until (and beyond) the invention of the telegraph and airplane. But even then, we’d be looking at a more-than three month turnaround in information.The thing is, even though traveling at 10,000 times the speed of light seems like it ought to be enough to usher in the age of traversing the galaxy with ease, it still doesn’t come close enough to collapsing the vast distances of space. To drive the point home, here’s a table of the 16 most-likely habitable exoplanets that we know about (and the recent “Earth 2.0,” which we don’t know a lot about but whose habitability is actually dubious), based on their standard habitability score, and how long it would take to reach them (one-way) at 10,000c.I wasn’t grasping at straws with the Atlantic crossing comparison. Once you get out to 1,000 light years from Earth, a ship traveling at 10,000c would have approximately the same travel time as a ship going between London and the US East Coast in the 1700s.It would be very hard to sustain any kind of deeply meaningful relationship between Earth and these far-flung systems when we already live in a world with near-instantaneous communication. Without a compelling interest for Earth to maintain regular contact (eg, the first courier ship comes back with a message, “So there’s a planet in this star system that’s made entirely out of palladium, in case you want to send more ships.”) most of these exosolar colonies would be left to their own devices, sending back irregular news until we could devise a way to communicate with them within the same amount of time as we’re accustomed to on Earth.This is why some of the most iconic spacecraft in science fiction travel at speeds orders of magnitude greater than what this question supposes.What might happen in the interim, though, would be the beginnings of an intergalactic Republic.As mentioned before, the compelling governmental/political interest in interplanetary/solar/galactic travel would be protecting commercial interests as precious resources were ferried across the cosmos. Delegates of the far-flung settlements might be invited to Earth to participate in successive discussions about how to regulate these lucrative trade routes. As the settlements developed into fully autonomous worlds and governments, these meetings might take on issues within a larger political narrative, and so would the First Galactic Republic be born.But going back to the top of my answer, all of these developments would unfold over generations. The discovery of the technology required to make them happen would make the prospect for these things happening in human-ish lifetimes a very real one, versus today where even imagining routine intercourse with settlers on the Moon or Mars is a far-flung reality. That would be a very exciting development, but it would take a long time for there to be very deep political ramifications.

You don’t.Just to give you an example, here’s a very soft idea submission page, from the good folks at Ben and Jerry’s: Contact Us | Ben & Jerry’sNote the not-so-fine print:In addition to the other terms and conditions of this Policy and Agreement, by submitting a suggestion to Ben & Jerry’s, you represent and agree as follows:Anything you submit to us through the Suggestion Box that is used by Ben & Jerry’s shall be owned by Ben & Jerry’s.Anything you submit to us through the Suggestion Box is not confidential and Ben & Jerry’s has no duty or obligation to hold it in confidence.…Although Ben & Jerry’s may, from time to time, provide a prize or award for useful suggestions, it does so in its sole discretion and is not required to do so.Any award or prize given to you by Ben & Jerry’s is accepted by you in full consideration of your suggestion.You do not rely, in submitting your suggestion, on any expectation, understanding, prior communication, or contract you believe is implied, and you understand that only the terms written in this Agreement apply to your submission of your suggestion.You get the idea.And like I say, Ben & Jerry’s is gentle. Apple (albeit not a food company) is more typical. Their unsolicited ideas page basically says: “Fuck you, we don’t want your ideas.” Or in only-slightly-less-aggressive language:Apple and its employees and contractors do not accept, review or consider any unsolicited ideas, works, materials, proposals, suggestions, artwork, content or the like, including for advertising campaigns, promotions, products, services, technologies, product enhancements, processes, marketing strategies, product names, content or creative materials (all of the foregoing “submissions”). Please do not send or provide any submissions in any form to Apple or any of its employees or contractors.Got an idea for a product? Go make it and sell it. That’s about the only way you’ll get compensation for it, especially in the realm of food.