Remembering Tata Elxsi: How My First Corporate Job Shaped My Entire Engineering DNA

July 4th 2005. While a country was celebrating independence, I was celebrating a different kind of milestone: my first day in the corporate world at Tata Elxsi. I walked into the office carrying a backpack full of computer science theory, a massive wave of imposter syndrome, and absolutely zero idea of what I’d actually be doing. The training programme was a daunting six-month long period and…