[Ilugc] [OffTopic] Article comparing Hinduism with Open Source
- From: suraj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suraj Kumar)
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 17:08:15 +0530
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun289 at 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
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