from Hacker News

Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5B contract

by 8BitArmour on 12/27/23, 6:17 AM with 18 comments

• by jpgvm on 12/27/23, 7:35 AM

  For anyone that has worked at "large global companies" they will know that Infosys and TechM are some of the worst things about working at said companies.

  The best Indian engineers aren't working at these body shops, instead it's the bottom of the barrel and all of them are looking to either get promoted quickly or get out just as fast. As a result it's a revolving door of "resources" (urgh corp speak) that have to constantly be brought up to speed.

  This is largely why most large enterprises operate on a bit of a seesaw w.r.t outsourcing.

  They have in-house people do the thing, it's expensive and some new exec that just got hired or promoted tries to score a quick win outsourcing stuff.

  So that continues for 2 years until exec gets their bonuses and leaves but now everything is a huge mess, business functions are paralyzed by outsourcing etc. Some new exec that was brought in to take the fall gets thrown out despite none of this being their fault.

  New expensive exec is hired to fix everything, they hire a new in-house team, usually at inflated rates because you need to offer a premium to clean up Infosys/TechM messes. Everything starts looking good again after 18-24 months but the exec that fought for and protected the in-house team is now surplus to requirements and on the way out.

  Cycle then repeats ad infinitum.

• by achow on 12/27/23, 9:19 AM

  Narayan Murthy is to Infosys as Bill Gates is to Microsoft (retired from their respective companies).

  And his words does not apply to IT Industry only, there are other professions which contributes to GDP of a country and where productivity matters.

  He quotes Germany and Japan where post war 'first generation' forsake their lives for the future generations, similarly, a modern example is that of South Korea - where the generation that built the nation in 60s had to work hard beyond the normal hours.

  This is what perhaps Mr. Murthy is trying to allude, and he also mentions how the government has to improve too (bureaucracy, elimination of corruption etc.).

  This is not about IT, or Infosys or "WITCH" companies, it is about building a nation.

• by nunez on 12/27/23, 12:22 PM

  Damn, something must have gone seriously, seriously wrong for Infosys to lose a huge deal they made news about. That doesn't happen, even for a bodyshop like them.

• by rishav_sharan on 12/27/23, 8:57 AM

  Music to my ears, given that the waste of oxygen that is the Infosys owner, has such gems to share

  https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/narayana-murthy-suggests-70-...

  Would be happier if the contracts of these WITCH companies are terminated citing how poorly they treat their employees