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Salary in Software company in india,bangalore,delhi,mumbai

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This was a topic many were interested so I thought of collecting some facts from some of my known sources & compiled the below list - THIS IS NOT 100% CORRECT - DONT BASE UR DECISIONS ON THIS LIST - i would say that this is very vague & incorrect info.

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This is for Software Engineers with around 2+ to 3+ years of experience working in Some of the top MNC companies listed below
NAME OF COMPANY::::SALARY IN INDIAN RUPEES(INR)
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Accenture 2,00,000 to 4,50,000
TCS(Tata Consultancy Services) 3,00,000 to 5,50,000
CST(Cognizant Technology Solutions) 3,50,000 to 6,00,000
HP (Hewlett-packard) 3,00,000 to 4,50,000
Wipro 2,00,000 to 3,50,000
Infosys 2,00,000 to 3,00,000
IBM 2,00,000 to 4,00,000
EMC 2,50,000 to 4,50,000
Symphony Services 2,00,000 to 3,50,000
Adaptec 2,00,000 to 5,00,000
Intel 3,50,000 to 6,00,000
Microsoft 3,00,000 to 5,00,000
CA(Computer Associates)2,00,000 to 4,50,000
Sun Microsystems 3,00,000 to 5,00,000
Dell Software 2,00,000 to 5,00,000
Cisco 3,00,000 to 5,50,000
Tata Elxsi 2,00,000 to 4,50,000

All these companies have storage related products or services & will be hiring storage professionals. This is a very rough estimate & NOT to be considered the real salary structure of these companies - I DO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY OF ANY EVENTS OCCURING DUE TO PUBLISHING THIS INFO - this same info can be found in many forums & blogs.

Guys & Gals - dont ever worry about salary - its always a variable thing - its based on ur previous experience, mainly based on your performance in the interviews, based on your current salary , based on how urgent or important is the hiring in the company , how much value addition u bring to the new job & new company . So stop worrying about Salary & other packages & concentrate on improving your skillset,knowledge & experience.Any of the above listed company may pay low than whats said above or they may pay much much higher than whats mentioned here - its not always easy to say which is the highest salary paying company - as all companies keep increasing their pay packages. Also dont forget that companies may fire or terminate you if you fail in keeping upto their expectations - so rather than worrying about pay packages just focus on excelling in your performance & your present company or the first company whichever it might be that you join - itself may recognise your potential & pay you more than you expect. You can surely have the best & I always wish you the best in your Career - I know u will have a Great Career & its not always because of a Great Salary.

After receiving lots emails about salaries in India, I thought of gathering some more facts from aquintances in indian companies, recruiters and others who have been involved in IT placement sector. This is a very ROUGH estimate & not to be taken as serious data.Indian Salary are based on the concept of CTC ( Cost to Company ) and that makes it very hard to compare offers of any two IT companies. There are companies that include every detail including their contribution to PF(Provident Fund), and other companies that try to be fair by including only the real components that are being given to you.

There seems to be offers which include performance bonus in the overall offer with a clause that it is based on overall performance of the company. MNC's and some companies do not play these games, so you are better off taking their offers as the baseline. I tried to eliminate the performance components in the calculations below. Be wary of some companies that include variable components into CTC.

General Salary Ranges in some software companies are listed below.. [ Most companies fall into this range including Big companies like satyam, infosys, wipro ... ]. Numbers below are estimated CTC in terms of Salary Per Annum in INR(indian rupees) where 1 Lakh is 100,000INR.

Entry Level / Fresh Graduates [ 0 to 2 years ] : 2.5 to 4.8 Lakhs. I have seen this being as high as 6 Lakhs in Bangalore.
Junior Positions [ 1 to 4 years ] : 3.5 to 7 Lakhs
Mid level [ 3 to 6 years ] : 5 to 11 Lakhs
Sr Level [ 6 and Above, Project Manager, Lead etc ] : 9 to 17 Lakhs [ Too much competition for these jobs ]
Leadership [ Delivery, Operations, HR etc. 12+ Years ] : 15 to 25 Lakhs [ Internal candidates get the first preference here. ]
Sr. Leadership [ Operations Head, VP etc ]: 18 to 45 Lakhs
Executive Leadership [ SVP, COO of Biz Unit etc.] : 35 to 70 Lakhs
C Suite of Company [ Country Head, CEO, CFO, CTO ] : Heard of offers ranging from 2 to 7 Crores. This cannot be confirmed, but most recruiters seem to agree with this range.

Now to some spicy cases :

* Entry level offers in 2006 by Microsoft are around 9.5 Lakhs, Google at 12.5 Lakhs, Amazon at 7.5 Lakhs. They are only focusing on top grade schools including the IIT's. Interviews are hard to get through.
* Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo etc., dont seem to care about the money as long as the candidate is the right fit for their Organization.Some examples I heard of include 25+ Lakhs for testing lead, and around 35+ Lakhs for a Sr. Developer, 78+ Lakhs for a Director.
* MBA's of indian schools like IIM , ISB etc., are starting around 20 Lakhs and going all the way to 1.5 Crores. There were recent examples of 2 MBA grads rejecting a 1 Crore offer to pursue their own enterprise.
* Also companies like Oracle, CSC etc., offering beyond the above grid to attract mid and senior level talent. They have large plans for India and are unable to meet the internal demand.

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Solaris Interview questions with answers for Storage professionals

31) How will you set a default router ?
A) # /etc/defaultrouter

32) How to remove all current routes and assign 192.168.1.100 as default router?
A) # route flush
# route add default 192.168.1.100

33) How to change the network settings ?
A) # sys-unconfig

34) What all does the NVRAM store?
A) Ethernet Address / Host ID / Time of Day (TOD) clock and EEPROM Parameters

35) Where are all the port numbers stored?
A) Port numbers are stored in /etc/services

36) Where are eeprom file stored ?
A) /usr/sbin/eeprom

37) Some important NIS commands :
1) # ypcat hosts à Prints info from hosts database
2) # ypmatch host1 hosts à Match individual host entries
3) # ypmatch user1 passwd
4) # ypwhich à Returns NIS master server.

38) Controlling the tape drive ?
1) mt –f /dev/rmt/0n à ‘n’ indicates no rewind.

39) What are the network utilities ?
1) snoop à To capture network packets & display contents
2) netstat –i à Displays state of Ethernet address
3) ndd command à Set & examine kernel parameters namely TCP/IP drivers.

40) Network Configuration :
1) /etc/resolv.conf : Contains Internet domain name, name server and search order.

2) /etc/nsswitch.conf : Specifies information source from files, NIS, NIS+ or DNS

3) /etc/hostname.[int](hme0|eri0|le0] : IP v4 host

4) /etc/nodename : IP v6 host

5) /etc/inet/hosts : Host namefile (/etc/host links to this file)

6) /etc/inet/netmasks : TCP/IP subnet router

7) /etc/inet/protocols : Network protocols

8) /etc/inet/services : Network service name & port numbers

9) /etc/notrouter : Create this file to prevent in.routed or in.rdiscd from starting at boot time

10) /etc/inet/inetd.conf : Internet super daemon config file

11) To change hostname / ip address :

/etc/hostname.{int}(hme0|le0)
/etc/nodename
/etc/inet/hosts
/etc/net/*/hosts
/etc/defaultrouter
/etc/resolv.conf


41) How to configure interfaces at boot time>
A) /etc/rcS.d/s30network.sh file à This script is run each time system is booted. It uses ifconfig utility to configure each interface with IP add & other network info.It searches for files called : hostname.xxn in /etc where xx à int type & nà instance of interface.

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21) How will you use “shutdown” command?
A) # shutdown –i0 –g300 –y

22) How will you check the OBP version of your system ?
A) Use “ banner” command at the ok prompt

23) Explain the Solaris Boot process?
A) 23.1 ) Boot Prom Phase : Runs POST to verify system hardware and memory Loads “bootblk” primary boot program.
23.2) Boot Program Phase : “bootblk” loads the finds “ufsboot” and loads it in memory.ufsboot loads the kernel.
23.3) Kernel Initialization Phase : Loads modules using “ufsboot”
Creates user processes and starts /sbin/init process.
23.4) Initialization Phase : Starts “rc” scripts. These scripts check & mounts file System, starts various processes and perform system maintanence tasks

24) Backup And Restore :
Full backup : # ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0 /
Where 0 à indicates full backup f à Path of the backup device u à update the dumpdates file.
Restore : # ufsrestore if /dev/rmt/0

25) How to temporary disable user’s login.
A) Log in as “root”
B) Create /etc/nologin file
# vi /etc/nologin
C) Include a message
D) Close and Save the file.

26) What does ‘Probe’ command do?
A) probe-scsi-all à list all internal and external scsi devices
B) probe-ide-all à List all ide devices

27) How to find whether a system is configured for 32-bit or 64-bit?
A) # isainfo -v

28) How to activate Ethernet card ?
A) # ifconfig qfe0 plumb

29) How will you assign ip address to system?
A) # ifconfig qfe0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

30) How will you check current ip configuration?
A) # ifconfig –a

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Solaris Interview Questions asked in IBM interviews

11) Which command displays the system configuration information?
A) prtconf

12) Which command is used to configure newly attached hardware ?
A) devfsadm –c where

13) What are the different types of “file systems” in Solaris?
A) There are 3 Types of file system :
13.A.1) Disk based : ufs (standard unix), hsfs (cd-rom), pcfs (Floppy)
Or udf (DVD and CD Rom)
13.A.2) Distributed : NFS (enables sharing of files between many types of n/w)
13.A.3) Pseudo : tmpfs (temporary), swapfs , fdfs, procfs

14) What is a “boot block”?
A) The bootstrap program (bootblk) is found in the next 15 disk sectors. Only the “root” file system has an active boot block, although the space is allocated for boot block at the beginning of each file system.

15) What is “superblock”?
A) The file system is determined by its superblock. It is contained in the 16 disk sectors following the boot block. It contains :
· No. of data blocks
· No.of cylinder groups
· Size of data block fragment
· Description of hardware
· Name of mount point
· File system state flag ( clean , stable , active , logging or unknown)

16) How will you repair the main superblock if it gets corrupted?
A) Every file system has backup superblock at block no.32, which can be given to fsck to repair the main superblock.
# fsck –o b=32 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

17) How to create new file systems ?
A) newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

18) How will you restore /etc/vfstab file if it gets corrupted?
A) Step 1 : Insert Solaris CD 1 of 2
Step 2 : Go to single user mode : ok boot cdrom –s
Step 3 : Run “fsck” on /(root) partition : # fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
Step 4 : Mount /(root) file system on /a directory to gain access to file system
# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a
Step 5 : Set & export TERM variable
# TERM=sun
# export TERM
Step 6 : Edit /etc/vfstab file and remove the incorrect entry : # vi /a/etc/vfstab
Step 7 : Unmount the file system : # cd / ; # umount /a and reboot the system.

19) How will you share user’s home directory?
A) Step 1 : Login as root and verify mountd daemon is running
# ps –ef | grep mountd
Step 2 : If the daemon is not running start it :
# /etc/init.d/nfs.server start
Step 3 : List all shared filesystems
# share
Step 4 : Edit the /etc/dfs/dfstab file and add :
# share –F nfs /export/home
Step 5 : Share the file systems in the /etc/dfs/dfstab file :
# shareall –F nfs
Step 6 : Verify that the home directory is shared.
# share

20) What does /etc/inittab file contain ?
A) The /etc/inittab contains the systems default run level, processes to start/monitor
or restart. It also contains the actions to be taken when run level changes.
/etc/inittab file is in foll format :- id:rstate:action:process

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Solaris Interview Questions - Sun's OS is a favourite among Storage industry

Sun microsystem's Solaris Operating System has a large penetration in Storage industry so it becomes a necessity for Storage professionals to know Solaris. A good blog reader "Dushyant" (scorpio) : has shared very good interview questions which he has collected from his experience of attending interviews. Thanks Dushyant for sending these questions & sharing with this blog community - I appreciate your efforts. As a reward I will be sending Dushyant 4 PDF's of Solid Storage Fundamentals to help his Storage Learning.

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Solaris Interview Questions
1) What files control user administration?
A) /etc/passwd file: 7 Fields: loginid:x:userid:groupid:comment:homedir:shell
/etc/shadow: 9 Fields: loginid:password:lastchng:min:max:warn:inactive:expire
/etc/group : 4 Fields : groupname:password:groupid:username list)

2) What does the “pwconv” command do?
A) It updates the /etc/shadow file with information from /etc/passwd file.

3) Where are the failed login attemps to system logged?
A) /var/adm/loginlog (We need to create this file as it does not exist by default)

4) Which command shows the users currently logged in to system?
A) who ( It reads the information from /var/adm/utmpx file)

5) Which command will show detailed information about a user?
A) finger –m

6) Which command displays all login and logouts?
A) last (It reads the information from /var/adm/wtmpx file)

7) What is the “StickyBit” file permission?
A) Sticky Bit permission protects the file within a public writable directory.
File set with sticky bit will not allow any user to delete the file except the
Owner of file, owner of the group or the root user.

8) How is ACL (Access Control Lists) implemented?
A) 8.1) “getfacl”command : To display an ACL on file.
Syntax : getfacl

8.2) setfacl command : To set the ACL on file
Syntax : setfacl


8.3) setfacl –m command : To modify ACL entries
Syntax : setfacl –m

8.4) setfacl –s command : Remove old ACL entries and replace with new one.
Syntax : setfacl –s

8.5) setfacl –d command : Delete ACL entry
Syntax : setfacl –d

9) Imp “root(/)” subdirectories and their purpose :
9.1) / : Root of overall file system.
9.2) /bin : Symbolic link to /usr/bin. Stores standard system commands and binary files.
9.3) /dev : Primary location for “logical” device names
9.4) /devices : Primary location for “physical” device names
9.5) /etc : Contains host specific system admin config files
9.6) /export : Default directory for commonly shared filesystems.
9.7) /home : Default directory / mount point for user’s home directory
9.8) /kernel : Directory of platform independent loadable kernel file
9.9) /mnt : Temporary mount point for file systems
9.10) /opt : Default directory for add on packages
9.11) /sbin : Executables used in booting process and file recovery
9.12) /tmp : Temporary files
9.13) /usr : Mount point for /usr file system
9.14) /var : Directory for varying files, temporary logging or status files

10) What are the different disk slices?

Slice Name Function
0 / Root’s system files
1 swap Swap area
2 Entire Disk
5 /opt Optional Software
6 /usr System Exe’s
7 /export/home User’s file and directories

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Information Lifecycle Management - A must to know for Storage professionals

Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM.
Information Management consists of the practices that facilitate operational storage management. These include the principles that guide ILM; the storage management tools and practices; database management practices; system performance and monitoring; system configuration; capacity planning; and business controls. Business controls generally include chargeback, costing and P&L-related metrics.

How the ILM Service works?

1 Analysis of requirements and business policies
2 Data Archiver service installed and enabled on customers network
3 Archiving policies and schedules defined Storage Options
4a Data archived to customers’ storage
4b Optional offsite backup of customer archive storage pool
5 Data archived to offsite storage utility at InTechnology data centres

Information Lifecycle Management (sometimes abbreviated ILM) is the practice of applying certain policies to the effective management of information throughout its useful life. This practice has been used by Records and Information Management (RIM) Professionals for over three decades and had its basis in the management of information in paper or other physical forms (microfilm, negatives, photographs, audio or video recordings and other assets).

ILM includes every phase of a "record" from its beginning to its end. And while it is generally applied to information that rises to the classic definition of a record (Records management), it applies to any and all informational assets. During its existence, information can become a record by being identified as documenting a business transaction or as satisfying a business need. And while most records are thought of as having a relationship to business, not all do. Much recorded information may not serve a business need of any sort, but still serves to document a critical point in history or to document an event. Examples of these are birth, death, medical/health and educational records.




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IBM's Storage related training options - Its Huge & Its High Paying , Challenging too

Certification in Storage : Guidance & Some weblinks

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Job roles and responsibilities in Storage IT industry

the kind of opportunities available for you in SAN industry

SAN Design and Deployment Engineer.
SAN Administrator.
SAN Applications developer.
SAN device driver and Firmware development engineer for different components such host controllers,Arrays,Switches.
SAN Support Engineer.
Backup and Recovery Administrators.
SAN testing engineers.

Find more information on Storage Area Network tutorials or SAN tutorials coming in this blog.

SAN Design & Deployment Engr : If you aspire to be a software architect & if you have the right skill for the same - this is a role you can fit into. Well this is something which needs atleast 1-2 years of SAN experience interms of actual hands on exposure in deployment of SAN infrastructure. ( We will include some Real Life implementation details & lots of graphics to help you understand this better )

SAN Administrator : Are you good in networking and system administration then there are loads of SAN administrator openings ( We will post the job requirements for each of these requirements in our future postings)

SAN Applications developer : If u r good in development of C/Unix or say any programming then you can very well fit into this role - U just need to have a good understanding of SAN fundamentals & very good programming skillset.

SAN device driver and Firmware development engineer for different components such host controllers,Arrays,Switches : All those embedded systems experts here is a golden opportunity for you - If you have good experience in device driver and Firmware development and though you are new to SAN you still are very much in demand . Yes you can get very good salary for your high skills.

SAN Support Engineer : Freshers here is a silver line for you - This is the most easiest way for a job hunter to get into SAN jobs. Yes it is not a high demanding job initially and it is not too tough and it is actually going to help you build your career. A support engineer in SAN is expected to have a fair SAN exposure ( YOu will get training once you join so dont worry :) . He is responsible to handle customer service requests & will be on call to resolve those technical issues and will build his expertise along the way - You get promotions and big pay as well .
No - This is not a call center kind of job. But this is far better interms of helping you learn as well as Earn in a technical environment.

Backup and Recovery Administrators : take any software industry they need a "Backup and Recovery Administrator" actually they need many. So this is also very much suited for freshers & new comers. We will go into details about this job requirement & how can a newcomer start his preparation to get a job in some similar roles. SAN Jobs are great for anyone to build their tech as well as domain knowledge.

SAN testing engineers: Testing Engineers in SAN this job is sooo much in demand that We are planning to have a detailed blogpost entirely on this subject. For time being - yes this is also very much suited for freshers/newcomers and compared to all other jobs this is an easy to get , easy to win the interviews kind of jobs. So u can get started in this segment if you are too lazy to work hard for other roles described above.

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EMC Symmetrix enterprise storage array another Great product you should know about

Symmetrix began in 1990 as an ESCON and SCSI connected storage array, but rose to prominence with the introduction of Fibre Channel-based SANs.
* Symmetrix 4200
* Symmetrix 4400 (4 MB cache, RAID1)
* Symmetrix 4800
* Symmetrix 5500-3
* Symmetrix 3.0 (Open Symmetrix, SRDF, FWD SCSI Front End option, RAID-S)
* Symmetrix 4.0 (TimeFinder)
* Symmetrix 4.8 (FC Front end, 3830?)
* Symmetrix 5.0 (333 MHz PPC, e.g. 8730)
* Symmetrix 5.5 (400 MHz PPC, last SCSI back end, e.g. 8830)
* Symmetrix DMX (500 MHz PPC, FC back end, Direct Access to cache from all FE and BE directors)
* Symmetrix DMX-2 (1000 MHz PPC, RAID 5 capable)
* Symmetrix DMX-3 (1.3 GHz PPC, new denser drive packaging)

This is what EMC says about its DMX Series system

StorEdge Sun microsystems product series - good Storage product from Sun

Storage job opening interview pointers.
In any interview for a storage related opening you will surely be asked to name Storage product names which might have worked on or known about.So below are some of the good Storage products from Sun microsystems which you can learn more about.Next posts will have information about other Storage products from vendors like EMC,IBM etc

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Sun StorEdge 6130 Array

aimed at business-critical applications, such as email, ERP and e-commerce providing advanced data protection, high availability and application oriented management.
* Maximum Tray Capacity: 73GB 10k rpm-FC drives 1022 GB per tray (3 RU), 73GB 15k rpm-FC drives 1022 GB per tray (3 RU), 146GB 10k rpm-FC drives 2044 GB per tray (3 RU), 400GB 7,200 rpm-SATA drives 5600 GB per tray (3 RU)
* System Capacity: Scales from 5 to 112 drives (365GB to 41.2TB)
* Support for high-performance FC and high-capacity SATA disk drives
* Modular design and "pay-as-you-grow" scalability

Sun StorEdge 9910 System

or the high-end data center, providing hardware and firmware redundancy, unique switched-fabric architecture, self-diagnosis, "call-home," and remote data replication.
* Over 3.5 TB raw capacity
* 48 drive capacity (up to 4 hot spares)
* SAN connectivity - handles up to 144 host connections (6:1 fan-out)
* 32 data paths provide 3.2 GB/sec bandwidth and extreme system resiliency
* RAID 5 or RAID 1+ gives customers a choice of HDD protection, resiliency, and performance

Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array
This is an array system that uses a modular, 'building block' approach with high port counts.With a highly intuitive management interface, the StorEdge 3510 is easy to deploy, configure and then manage providing a host of enterprise class features such as dual hot-swap power and cooling, dynamic LUN expansion and hot-swap disk drives.
* Capacity : 146GB 10K rpm disk drives: 1.72 TB max storage capacity (raw, in single 2U array)
* 2Gb Fibre Channel architecture
* Up to 12 Fibre Channel ports in dual RAID controller configurations
* Support for up to 1024 logical unit numbers (LUNs) with hardware LUN masking

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