- I spent this week on-boarding at Toyota Connected India (TCIN) Bangalore office. At TCIN, you are expected to spend 5 days a month in office, either in one go or spread across entire month e.g. 1 day a week. My team prefer to gather in Bangalore office for a week and this was the week. So I went to office all 5 days to spend face-time with each of them even when most on-boarding call was from Chennai office.
- The on-boarding week is relaxed but packed: meetings with HR, Admin, Finance, Legal etc. Each of them spent approximately an hour with me. Also at least one meeting per day with my team-mates on KT and codebase. I also get to see the hardware that runs Toyota dashboard.
- TCIN office also has lunch inside the office and that solves a lot of problems for me. I can leave early to avoid traffic without having breakfast and have a light breakfast in office.
- My experience at TCIN is pleasantly different than my last on-boarding at Veeam where I was mostly on my own to figure things out! I didn’t even know I had an HR at Veeam, he didn’t meet!
- Ookie switched to a new school this week which has better activities and communication patterns.
- Rains are still absent and temperature is soaring in Bengaluru. I hope mangoes will be sweater! Every year, in this month, I read about Bengaluru climate and weather and then forget all about it later. What causes rains in April? Returning Monsoon timelines?
Weekly Notes 2026/17
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