My summer at the Hindustan Unilever Research Center, Bangalore
Quite a few of the posts here have been from Bangalore. Well, I’m adding another 
For starters, I joined my internship here at Hindustan Unilever Research Center (HURC), Whitefield, Bangalore on the 11th of May, ‘09. First step into this place and I was greeted with a gazillion safety rules - HUL is trying to become a zero injury company - walking within yellow lines and holding the staircase railing being the minimalistic of all.
Anyway, the company - it virtually has no competition in the market - Surf, Rin, Ponds, Dove, Sunsilk, Impulse… you name it and you’ll see a Unilever tag on it… and that’s exactly what I had in mind when I came here - and boy I wasn’t disappointed!
White lab coat clad, safety goggled individuals, swiping their ID cards at doorways, carrying test-tubes of liquids, scurrying along in their definitive lives… one glance at my lab (name not revealed due to a confidentiality agreement we signed on day 1) and i realized, this is the place i wanna be..rather - Industrial R&D is the place to be for me.
Application of your knowledge coupled with some sort of an economics estimate to things… optimizing is an important part of my project here and to be honest, this intern is something!
pykara lake, ooty
The Atmo :
Jovial, cooperative and excessively knowledgeable people - its a pleasure to interact with them… they do have a penchant for frolic. Despite each department competing for safety awards when they’re given out bi-annually. Infrastructure - need i say more? - is fantastic, both the lab setups and pilot plants.
We get awesome breakfast and lunch here… and there’s carrom, TT, badminton to be played in the evenings… gym for those who sign up for it and did i mention they have bollywood dance classes twice a week for ‘enthu junta’ !
How i got here : just applied to the HR manager here, an interview call and voila!
falls at hogenakkal
The weekends :
So basically, i work my ass off, literally, on weekdays so that i can enjoy the weekends like hell — 6 weekends till date and I’ve been to Ooty, Mysore, Pondicherry, Hogenakkal (wonderful place though unheard of) and the common tourist attractions here…
All in all, its been one helluva summer — a hell of a lot of work and even more play makes a summer a GOD one!
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