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Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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Well, I used one of the body shops in India to move to the US on H1B. Then I switched to a reputed US company within months after landing. This is what every highly skilled Indian grads should do.

>Should do? How does ethics play out here? Promising an employer to work for them just to lure them and get an H1B visa and then ditching them? Doesn't sound ethical.

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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post #51

Well, I used one of the body shops in India to move to the US on H1B. Then I switched to a reputed US company within months after landing. This is what every highly skilled Indian grads should do.

>Should do? How does ethics play out here? Promising an employer to work for them just to lure them and get an H1B visa and then ditching them? Doesn't sound ethical.

H1B visa jobs are supposed to pay the prevailing wage to the employee, if they did in fact do that how was OP able to find a better job so quickly?

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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post #51

Well, I used one of the body shops in India to move to the US on H1B. Then I switched to a reputed US company within months after landing. This is what every highly skilled Indian grads should do.

>Should do? How does ethics play out here? Promising an employer to work for them just to lure them and get an H1B visa and then ditching them? Doesn't sound ethical.

Neither is underpaying employees, which companies like Infosys are known to do on a massive scale. If they really want the talented engineers to stay, they should consider paying them market level salaries, having a clear career path etc.

An H1B is not a promise to the employer, BTW. It is a regulatory requirement imposed by the US Government, and not everyone gets it (you gotta have a college degree, masters degree helps, and then get it through a lottery process). If an employee gets a better offer, he/she should absolutely take that offer.

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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post #51

Well, I used one of the body shops in India to move to the US on H1B. Then I switched to a reputed US company within months after landing. This is what every highly skilled Indian grads should do.

>Should do? How does ethics play out here? Promising an employer to work for them just to lure them and get an H1B visa and then ditching them? Doesn't sound ethical.

The company's aim is to import low-wage labour on the promise of access to the states. The employee's aim is to obtain access to the states in exchange for accepting sub-standard wages.

I'm not sure how savvy employees jumping ship is a moral failing of the employee rather than a retention rate issue to be addressed by the company.

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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A lot of criticism is valid however rather generalized. The talent pool at large-scale, low-cost services industry in India is comprised of people who were mass hired, trained on the job and dug through a single skill set for years. That being said, there are pockets within the organization which do really well. It is worth noting, that it can't be a million dollar business without actually solving a business problem…

To all the naysayers, Infosys did solve real problems at first; they built a formidable reputation. I don't know when but at some point they expanded like crazy and I believe didn't care for quality so much anymore. There might still be talented people working there, but its know pejoratively as a "bus company" i.e. one which comes to a college to recruit a "bus load" of cheap engineers.

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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>Should do? How does ethics play out here? Promising an employer to work for them just to lure them and get an H1B visa and then ditching them? Doesn't sound ethical.

H1B visa jobs are supposed to pay the prevailing wage to the employee, if they did in fact do that how was OP able to find a better job so quickly?

I know h1bs who jumped to Amazon, Intel etc. The salary increase was significant, but they were relocating from low cost of living areas to the big cities.

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Just curious: did anybody here had a good experience with a project done by Infosys? There must have been good teams and good projects.

Infosys built the original iOS App Store. It's not perfect, but for something which operates at a massive scale, it isn't the worst it could be.

Bullshit. My team built the original app store in Apple.

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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I find it really strange that people are down voting this comment. Not only do these Big IT companies hire in mass, they also spend insane amounts of money and time training students who come out of college without exposure to real work. Yeah they pay peanuts and yes you would be just a face in the crowd. But they likely give you the biggest break of your life. People need to show some gratitude.

"insane amounts of money" is an overkill. I have worked for a year in IBM. We had a two weeks training course on Lotus Notes, sub-contracted out to a training institute. In a dingy place, in an inner part of the city. Even in companies like Infosys, most training is done in-house. So we are not talking about insane amounts of money. Additionally, if you need to really spend insane amounts of money to train freshers,…

I like the last one. True, Infosys like companies started as a service company and never expanded their business to develop out of the service sector which is bad. My observation is, all these service companies only focus on their profits and never reinvest to expand the business out of it, maybe developing a product to start with.

Re: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka Resigns

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While this is true it is has been created and sustained by Western CEOs for the last 25 years. Lets blame the right clowns.

I don't disagree with that in the slightest. Infosys is the optimized answer to shitty IT governance in the west. But that doesn't change the fact that it doesn't solve an actual business problem.

think about your comment and than think again. Do you really believe it doesn't actually solve a problem ? Not at all ?
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