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Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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Post by ap46 »

novia wrote: post #2

I have a technical interview with this company next week. Anyone want to fill me in on the good the bad and the ugly of being a programmer at a company like Infosys?

For the love of god just get into any product shop, take eLitmus or AMCAT & leave BigIT. There's every less to learn, high restrictions on taking up choice assignments & so many more reasons. You can read up so many answers from Quora.

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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Post by leoharsha2 »

novia wrote: post #2

I have a technical interview with this company next week. Anyone want to fill me in on the good the bad and the ugly of being a programmer at a company like Infosys?

I highly recommend you NOT to join this company as a programmer because you'd have no growth and also, they pay you peanuts and earn millions. They treat you like shit. You'll be just another fish in the sea.

The only good thing about joining this company is good work-life balance as there is no much work for you to do.

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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Post by novia »

ap46 wrote: post #3
novia wrote: post #2

I have a technical interview with this company next week. Anyone want to fill me in on the good the bad and the ugly of being a programmer at a company like Infosys?

For the love of god just get into any product shop, take eLitmus or AMCAT & leave BigIT. There's every less to learn, high restrictions on taking up choice assignments & so many more reasons. You can read up so many answers from Quora.

I am a US citizen just graduating from a college, I haven't been in big IT yet. I'm just starting out with computer science.

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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Post by giis »

novia wrote: post #2

I have a technical interview with this company next week. Anyone want to fill me in on the good the bad and the ugly of being a programmer at a company like Infosys?

As someone who worked with outsourced IT services companies, I highly recommend you to join product based companies. Most of the work done by Indian body shops are not great,they focus on managing legacy codes and some maintenance works.

If I get a time-machine, I'll go back in time and avoid the mistake of joining services-based IT companies. :-)

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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Post by mobutu »

ap46 wrote: post #3
novia wrote: post #2

I have a technical interview with this company next week. Anyone want to fill me in on the good the bad and the ugly of being a programmer at a company like Infosys?

For the love of god just get into any product shop, take eLitmus or AMCAT & leave BigIT. There's every less to learn, high restrictions on taking up choice assignments & so many more reasons. You can read up so many answers from Quora.

Yeah join Google, Facebook or Apple instead!!

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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Post by _jgdh »

novia wrote: post #2

I have a technical interview with this company next week. Anyone want to fill me in on the good the bad and the ugly of being a programmer at a company like Infosys?

As an American your experience might be different from the thousands of Indian grads that are hired every year. But I wouldn't bet on it, and I'd stay as far away as possible if I could. It's a body shop and the office politics are insane.

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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Post by known »

novia wrote: post #2

I have a technical interview with this company next week. Anyone want to fill me in on the good the bad and the ugly of being a programmer at a company like Infosys?

Infosys is making money by selling software engineers, not software to USA/EU :(
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