To people who've worked in Infosys for 10+ years. What are your reasons to stick around. I would think that you can get more money outside. Or there is something more which we don't know about? TC 340k
Incompetence
Onsite Kool-Aid
Yeah, but switching to work directly for the client is more beneficial for them financially. I know it's likely blocked by contract.
1. Job security. 2. Not enough motivation or confidence to apply and clear interviews. 3. Many don't want to settle here and many who stick around too long get their GC in eb1.
Some got onsite in initial years so they stay because they would have flat loan paid off Few are waiting for onsite Some of them are working in old technologies so dont have options to switch And rest are in super comfort zone , enjoying infy campus
Too much effort to leave their confort zones
Sorry, after posting I realised it looks like a rant. My first company, straight out of college was Infosys, I did have other offers from some startups but job security prevails in India, recession was just round the corner too. To be very honest, I hated every moment there, I would never wear the employee tage outside office, not even by mistake, it felt like a trap, very visible one. First year and a half I tried to go for masters, my parents supported me but I got to know they don't have enough money but they were ready to manage it somehow. I dropped the idea, I wanted them to enjoy their own lives for once. I started looking out for new jobs, I didn't get enough callbacks because of Infosys on my resume, but I managed to double my TC with that switch. I hopped more and worked on things that made direct impact. I have never looked back at a service based company since then. I would never. It had everything inside that huge campus, swimming pools, all kinds of sports to play, a gym membership, a laundry service, subsidised food prices, green lush peaceful campus.. but it doesn't fulfil the sole purpose why an "engineer" would enter that campus. And, many people like what they have. They don't feel trapped there, they're not after the quality of work that you see inside your 15" screen, they're about the quality of place where you'd sit with your laptop.
It is an interesting read. Thanks for sharing the perspective. I am still very very curious about someone who is in it right now and has been for a long time. Seems like it would be an interesting perspective
Yeah, me too. I want to know what perspective do they have.. following this thread.
I can share my experience - it is long read so probably not for everyone and also people from India will probably appreciate it better Infosys as a company has evolved a lot in the last 20 years but when I joined it was one of the places to be in India. I studied in govt subsidized school and engineering college and given my finances at that time, I didn’t have the means to study in the US so a job was the likely path. Facebook was still not founded and Amazon was in its nascent phase. When you are young and in India, you don’t care too much about money. If you felt short of it, you just took up a project in Europe and the US. I made multiple trips to many countries working across industries and the idea that you could always go back to India once you made some money always appealed to me. You also felt that working in Infosys India and Infosys USA for example were too different things - while Infosys India brimmed with college like camaraderie, in the US you always had to work in a contractor/second class kind of way - FTEs got cubicles you were shunted to a room with five other people, you were always working hard to make your clients succeed - often you felt that your job was to help promote people in the client side from Directors to VPs and so on. Many of them understood and were nice but some others looked down on you. I have worked for the biggest tech names be it Apple, Microsoft or Cisco and many of them offered me a job - for some reasons, I never considered them seriously. Also many of them were not the companies that they are today. Microsoft was mediocre till Satya took over and Apple struggled a bit in the 2000s. It was difficult to fathom at that time that they will be Trillion dollar companies in a decade or so. One more reason I didn’t like the US that time was because you felt that the Contractor kind of life was good for 6 months to a year and you went back to the mothership - which was Infosys India. I was single during this time. Things changed when I came for a project with family. You start thinking about your children’s school and wife’s job and you get in the Green card queue. Leaving Infosys and joining a tech company has crossed my mind many times - however you are always a slave to your next extension, I-140 etc and you are not completely free to take this decision. Many of my direct reports have joined Amazon or Microsoft and if you compare notes - you feel severely underpaid. Infosys is a great company in the US if you are a non-technical person - like an MBA or banker or something but for technical people it sucks - it’s primarily to do with the business model - You are often more valuable for your client than Infosys Coming back to the original question - why stick around. After spending a long time with a company, sometimes when you want to move you want to make the right choice - adapting to new cultures is not easy. I have been researching some companies now that I am becoming visa independent- few companies I want to rule out - Amazon for its cut throat culture, FB because of it attitude towards private data and some parts of Apple like IS&T which suck. There are some companies that I may not be able to get into like Google - haven’t tried but not sure so the ones that I like include SalesForce and Microsoft - so I will stick around till I find the right one. Regarding money, sometimes it is not about how much you earn but whether you can live within your means. There are people who get 400k in the Bay Area and are miserable so hoping to see money as a means and not an end
It definitely sucks to work for service based companies at client location. You never realize that until you work at one. Turning that opportunity into a FTE gig is another ballgame altogether and depends on your clients org structure and their politics. Nobody at your company in US care about what you do as long as the client is happy and sometimes the client (rightfully) couldnt care less about you
Tc or gtfo. I also want to know how much they earn.
I have few people from my university working there for 10+ years. First job out of university. There must be a reason why they still stick around.