Saturday, January 20, 2007

Recruitment or deception

Hi Friends form many days I was thinking of writing on this topic. If you look 4-5 yrs back then we can easily find the way India IT industry has boomed. They way companies are following MA and AC policies. Lots of acquisition is happening day by day. At one place Infosys is known for its homely atmosphere and another place Satyam is known for paying less to the employee. But in spite of so much good happening around us one question still strikes in the mind why these India software biggies are recruiting so many people every year. Is really they have enough work to do or something else.

After scratching your head for long answer will come ……..no .They don’t have that much work but still they are doing it. I can tell you the name of many biggies who keep on recruiting the people just to make the name of their company more big ,because how many employee are in the company is one of the major criteria to be big.

Infosys with more than 20000 employee and TCS may be little bit less. Sometimes during my working hours I used to get some mail that is nothing but the bulletin board mail of the Infosys employees who are on bench. What a funny content it used to have.

But looking more carefully it is not funny at all. Now as we have entered in 2007 and everywhere we are reading listening about India poised.

Number of patents filed from this country of 100 million people is very less compare to Australia or other country because the quality of people doing job there are much more than we have. We keep on waving the flag of outsourcing in our hand and used to pat our self yes India you are growing and rapid GDP growth of 8.5 % every year.

I have few friends in Wipro who joined as WASean progam (Recruiting the people from the college and allowing them to do their MS from BITS –Pilani along with 5 days work in the office).When one day while talking they told me that during presentations to the client while introducing about the team structuring name of WASians was out of the list just because “WASIan” college graduate working for a big MNC how it is possible, we do great work how our imagination at work will flourish. It is because of that management who want to make these company pure bureaucratic companies.

From my perspective there are long way to go ……….

If we put side by side India (For its preparation for Common Wealth Games 2010) and China and its preparation for the Olympic 2008 then we can come to know why China is growing so speedily. China known for their nature of following their own language is now learning English and that will be biggest slap for India if they overtake us in the field of software industry.

Much more to write ……………

3 comments:

Abhi said...

I read ur views and with some i agree and with some i dont. I dont know y are the companies recruiting like hell but they are still turning in the profits arent they and infact in some cases like infy increasing the margin , so we need to look more carefully on wt their real purpose mite be.
But then i do agree about the kind of work we get to do is mostly , lets face it , lousy and this is because we are followers. we jumped on the bandwagon too late and the only thing which drove work to india was cheapness or shall i say in terms of refined " Cost effective ness" :). If we werent the coolies in first place we wont have been able to raise this questn of y is there no innovation. I feel we would get there and we would gradually climb the ladder but its gonna take a lot of time. One thing, revolutions , innovations dont come from big companies, they are too big to get there hands in innovation.It comes from small teams , few driven individuals so intead of looking at infosys or satyam its us we should look at to shoulder the responsibility. Ofcourse there are exceptions like apple who have branched into something else but still they are the exceptions not the rules.
There are many things stopping innovations here, responsibility to the family ,cultural baggage and red tape ofcourse to name a few. Instead of blaming companies and managements for the problems and ask for solutions , i feel we should tackle social issues first thats where the problem lies actually and changing it all will take time. Sadly ,there are no miracles

ashish bhardwaj said...

hi abhi i read urs detial comment and it is appreciable.I will try to add some more points soon:-))

ashish bhardwaj said...

HI abhi, i thought of writing comment here but again comment has become too big so i m thinking i will publish it :-).