On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Happened 3 days back: > Guy from reputed engineering college walks into my office. He actually > comes here with my friend's reference. He wants to do an internship. Asked > him about his project thinking he wants to do it here. He says it's being > done by HCL career development center. Rs6,500/- per person, 3 in a team. > They will explain the project and the project report to them too at the > same cost. Asked him why he wants to work here if he was not interested > even in doing his own project. He says that he is already 'campus selected' > by Infosys and Wipro. Then again I ask him why then he wants to do an > internship. He says his friends scared him saying that he will be kicked > out of Infosys and Wipro after training if he does not know about work > ethics and other stuff. > > Awesomeness - The guy, HCL CDS, Infosys and Wipro. > India, the IT power house!!!! We will be the greatest. > I sympathize. This narrow, skewed work-ethics is, IMO, due to something uniquely indian by nature - one is perceived to be 'better off' by society if they're found to be in a good position and it is also expected that people in good positions 'know' what they're doing. Both combined, results in people not accepting what they don't know and in racing to 'climb the ladder' for this mysterious religion called 'growth', this strategy by itself is quite harmful to one's career... above it, when we play out a game of such similar strategies, there is a run away phenomenon that ends up lowering the entire company's bar. The bad hire the worse and it quickly turns into a hell hole. ... but nothing is black and white. I've found good people from Infosys/TCS-types as well or even people with completely irrelevant backgrounds shining. I guess the differentiating variable is "Passion". When we got 700,000 "engineers" graduating every year from India and countless more other 'graduates', most of them confused because their view of the world states that they must first get a well paying, "dignified" job. With such a scenario, such sweat shops are but inevitable? It is perhaps still cost effective to keep 4 guys to do each of coding, testiing, documenting and releasing 3 lines of code per day. Money beats Logic. A cousin of mine was happy because his BPO company offered him the title of "Executive Officer". Hmmm? cheers, -Suraj -- Career Gear - Industry Driven Talent Factory http://careergear.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
