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 Placement 2007,  Sunday, 10 February 2008 FMS is likely to end up with best placements among the state-affiliated management schools.

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 TCS,  Thursday, 08 November 2007 Fresher Salary: 2.5 to 2.8 lakhs per annum is the fresh engineer salary package depending on the college.

Career Growth/Onsite Assignments: One major drawback of TCS is it handles many projects in India so you can be onsite and still in India, and they don’t give any extra perks if you are posted to a client location in India. There are many India specific local projects, which TCS handles to name a few Tata Indicom, SBI, and some projects for state governments too. If you get stuck in this kind of project it can be a waste.

Training: TCS gives training for 2 months on different streams, the training is for name sake, any way technical knowledge is not required in Services Company, they teach couple of interesting things like ball room dancing and dining etiquettes too.

Work Environment: I worked in a client location, it was not that cool.

Brand Value/Respect: Great! TCS team had Father of Indian Software Industry Fakir Chand Kohli

Work Life Balance: Depends on Project, after delivery is over the schedule can be cool and during go-alive it can be more.

Job Security: Good

Co-workers competence: Not very good

Bond: TCS has a bond of 2 years for fresh engineers.

Facilities: It does not have special campus for its development centers in most of the cities; it leases buildings in different places.

 Infosys - Salary Hurts,  Thursday, 08 November 2007 Introduction:

Infosys Technologies Limited is an information technology (IT) services company founded in Pune, India in 1981 by N. R. Narayana Murthy and six of his colleagues. It operates nine development centers in India and has over 30 offices worldwide. Annual revenues for fiscal year 2007 exceeded US$3.1 billion with a market capitalization of over US$30 billion. With over 72,000 employees worldwide, Infosys is one of India’s largest IT companies.

Training at Infosys:

The company gives 4 months of vigorous training in various technologies for non computer science students whereas for Computer science grades its around 2 months. The trainees will be exposed to various technologies during the training period. ILI (Infosys Leadership Institute) and E&R(Education and Research) departments plays a major role in shaping up the personalities of trainees at Infosys. ILI will hone up the client and people handling skills and E&R will enrich your technical skills.

How good is it for freshers?

Infosys is a good company for freshers to start their careers with. Infosys training transforms a fresher into a “domain-ready professional”. But the strategies they adopt for allocating resources to the projects across various business units are haphazard. The guy who is trained in Mainframes will be put into Java and so on. Resource Utilization is one of the greatest concerns that most of the employees have with Infosys. Its not an exaggeration that you must spend more than 6 months on bench.

Work at Infosys:

Infosys was a proven brand name. As a services industry this firm was always working on the cutting edge technologies. There would be no better place to get such a exposure to such a wide range of knowledge. I always feel that the top level management was transparent to extent it could be. But the Middle management is not very fair. Most of the times, you end up in doing what you don’t want to do. In case of time and material projects, which contribute to most of the Infosys revenue, change requests come on daily basis, which makes your tasks unplanned. Either it be a fixed price bid or time and material deal, the work Infosys does is just maintenance and enhancements.

Career growth and onsite opportunities?

Career growth may not be very fruitful in Infosys due to the flooding recruitment. At any point of time there are a bunch of people who can do a single task. This is hindering the opportunity for growth in the company. Onsite opportunity completely depends on the requirement in the project. You may get an onsite assignment in about 2-3 yrs if you join as a fresher.

Work pressure/Work – life balance.

In Infosys you have a very poor work pressure balance. Most of the employees stay late in the night. There will be no flexibility in the work schedule. Its almost impossible to plan any other thing on a working day. Often weekends are also devoted to work due to poor allocation of time and resources.

Satisfaction with salary and quality of work.

Its a known fact that Infosys pays a very low salary when compared to any other company in the Industry. As of now Infosys pays 2.7 lacs per annum to freshers. But the hikes and TPI (Trainee Performance Incentives) are low. Even the Business unit heads say Infosys never pays well. Quality of work is bad in Infosys. Most of the times the work is just maintenances and enhancements to the existing systems. SETLABS is a R&D unit in Infosys but not much of research output will come out of it.

What type of work they do:

Infosys primarily is a service oriented company. The only product Infosys has developed is Finacle which is a banking application. Although Finacle has gained a lot of market response, Infosys strategies are not drived towards Product development.

Job security:

Job security is one good aspect in Infosys. It almost equivalent to a job in Govenment
Organization. The cases where they fire you out is when you are caught under ASHI(Anti Sexual Harassment Initiative).

Some positives and negatives of the company:

Positives:
1. Training for freshers.
2. Cool campuses, amazing buildings, good facilities.
3. Job Security
4. Brand value of the company.

Negatives:
1. Poor pay structures.
2. Low Quality work.
3. False publicity of ethics and values.
4. One year of legal bond for freshers.

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why?

Infosys provides good opportunities for people who have long-term commitment to the company. Again, luck will play a crucial role here. If you are interested in designing and developing something then you may need to think again before joining Infosys.