IT consulting body shops indulge in various unethical practices, some of which are illegal and have been fined several times for those. (WITCH = Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL and other similar tech consulting firms like Accenture, L&T Infotech and even EY, IBM etc). They have an abysmal hiring bar (no online assessment, single 15min HR interview), they hire en masse from third grade Indian colleges and, believe it or not, have their names under several world records for doing so. These third grade private colleges pay WITCH companies under the table to make the college placement stats look good. Most employees remain on the bench for months and don't get assigned a project, and it's misrepresentation by the college to claim these benchers to be "placed in a job". https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/vit-263501-2015-09-17 They also perpetrate the "cheap foreign labor" stereotype and while the workers are the ones exploited the most (by earning only $60-70k when they're moved onsite directly from India on L1/H1), these body shops lobby against raising the minimum wage to be paid to H1B visa holders, driving down wages for everyone in the process. WITCH companies also exploit the L1A-EB1C green card loophole, which is technically supposed to for international managers, but a little bit of fraud and misrepresentation never stopped anyone especially these companies. https://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/TCS-fined-940m-in-US-for-stealing-healthcare-software/articleshow/51853815.cms https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/indian-corporation-pays-record-34-million-fine-settle-allegations-systemic-visa-fraud Given all the malpractices, and how these ex-WITCH employees spread the 996 culture in American companies, I tend to look down on their resume outright if I ever receive one. Who knows if this person is a criminal who indulged in fraud or facilitated it? Do you do the same?
A lot of the applications lie on their resume. They lie about their skills and responsibilities at their workplace
I would rather hire someone from no name startup than WITCH companies. 99% of the folks in WITCH barely studied CS sincerely. Otherwise they would have gotten placed in top companies that usually are scheduled for hiring rounds before these ones in all Universities. WITCH companies are typically scheduled last and the day is called day 0. All the left over engineers get placed.
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Amazon, you are from WITCH. Aren’t you? Also I bet my career you would have cheated in you Assessment tests.
I don't look at resume before interviewing. I don't want to have biases (+ve or -ve) based on someone’s experience. Interviews at Google are very structured so it works. Wouldn't work at a smaller compared.
Lol why do you care so much? Also you’re evaluating resumes at Amazon? Is that shit not done automatically
I've worked with both Product Sector and am in Cognizant. I've received a call from Amazon and have an offer from Meta as well. But it's really difficult to get a call. The success rate is like 1% to get a call. Even though my interview clearing rate is about 70-80%. No matter who says what here, it's very tough to come out of the WITCH. If you're laid off, better stay unemployed than join a company like mine.
If its WITCH or an ex-Amazon PIP factory manager on the resume..... then I will take the WITCH candidate every day of the week.
Skills are what truly matter, not the company. I have learned great skills at cognizant and because of that I am grateful for. If cognizant is not helping you grow your skills start on the side or start looking for other opportunities!
If your skills are worth something then let the market pay you top dollar for it.
I have extensive experience in BI and became a consultant through TCS because I was having trouble getting the end client to consider my resume and the job description made it clear who they were hiring for. Now that I’m with the client they are all about my work. I have seen TCS’s butt-in-seat attitude but I’ve also seen TCS leadership not have that attitude, it just depends on the program manager. I have some incredibly capable colleagues that just took the role to get a foot in the door. If I were choosing vendors to hire I wouldn’t go with TCS but I’d definitely consider TCS folks given some of the quality I’ve seen. Another comment about hiring as TCS, I’ve never seen candidates as fraudulent as we see. There are SO many applicants that have someone else on the call speaking and they’re mouthing the words and doing the typing. They have a low quality candidate funnel, even if you enforce a stringent testing regime on the backend. I’d also say that the quality candidates aren’t just on-shore. I’m seeing some good offshore resources. It all depends on your own testing of them once they get into the interviews, right? What’s stopping a fraudulent candidate from changing “TCS” to “Slalom” on their resume and then just saying they were subbed through Slalom or something if someone asks?
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