Mass Recruitment
There was a forward yesterday that said that stated that some 990 people joined Infy on a single day in its Mysore campus. The forward also carried a nice photo with everyone in the huge crowd wearing neat formals.
This news started off an argument over a spate of mails between a friend and me. The base of the argument was, "Should we be happy that IT companies are recruiting so many people?" I, being the optimist that I am
, argued that recruitment of any sort only projects the positive outlook of the future and more work coming to the companies. Afterall companies don't hire people to decorate their premises or publish articles on how they are managing with so many people.
My friend on the other hand feels that news on 990 people joining at the same time is only a reminder of bulk intake of labourers. He explained that he sees software engineers nowadays as nothing labourers wearing suit and tie, and nothing else.
Whatever be the actual reason, there are few things I notice nowadays
a) The prestige of working for a company like Infy has certainly come down. There are ofcourse so many others doing the same.
b) Quite a handsome number of people seem to be on bench
c) There ARE some highly qualified people who are recruited to decorate the company's CV (as against what I argued yesterday)
d) Most of the software work in our country is related to application development and maintenance work. Not much R&D or design is involved.
P.S. I’m still trying to get my blog template back to normality, though in vain.
This news started off an argument over a spate of mails between a friend and me. The base of the argument was, "Should we be happy that IT companies are recruiting so many people?" I, being the optimist that I am
, argued that recruitment of any sort only projects the positive outlook of the future and more work coming to the companies. Afterall companies don't hire people to decorate their premises or publish articles on how they are managing with so many people.My friend on the other hand feels that news on 990 people joining at the same time is only a reminder of bulk intake of labourers. He explained that he sees software engineers nowadays as nothing labourers wearing suit and tie, and nothing else.
Whatever be the actual reason, there are few things I notice nowadays
a) The prestige of working for a company like Infy has certainly come down. There are ofcourse so many others doing the same.
b) Quite a handsome number of people seem to be on bench
c) There ARE some highly qualified people who are recruited to decorate the company's CV (as against what I argued yesterday)
d) Most of the software work in our country is related to application development and maintenance work. Not much R&D or design is involved.
P.S. I’m still trying to get my blog template back to normality, though in vain.
posted by Jammy at 12:01 AM
8 Comments:
Ram ur blog template looks perfectly fine. Noticed that u have changed ur archives to months. Thats another nice thing to see.
Coming to the Mass recruitment, now a days the BE has lost its value.. any tom dick and harry manages to get a BE seat.
On the positive side, its good that atleast these lots are still getting job.
But if ppl are recruited in such huge numbers then the pride in working in such bluechip company is lost.
Btw arent u nearing ur century blog?? Advance Congrats on that :)
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Is this ur 102nd post?
Ne inum enaku smiley blog la podrathuku solitharala...
@Heidi
Thanks. This is my 104th post.
Yep, BE has lost it's value.
Jammy all said and done about the students recruited being labourers, slaves, etc..still the software industry is doing quite a bit to solve our unemployment problem.
I think I second k7 on that coz with so many jobs, we are happy to see people being placed in companies and making a decent enuf living.
seyyum thozhilae Dheivam :)
@Krishna
Can't fully agree on that. From what I can observe the high level designs are generally made in the US itself and the projects are sent here only for development and lateron for maintenance. Ofcourse we are moving towards high-end work, but I don't think we are already there.
@Vetty and Aks
That's my view point as well
@M.E.
Ofcourse
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