Has the Tech. Outsourcing to India reached its peak?
Read this first:
http://gigaom.com/2007/02/18/troubling-signs-for-indian-tech-outsourcers/#comment-654693
Well the reason that Google is such a hot employer is because of the work culture and brand name it offers.
Most of the Indian outfits like TCS and Wipro are run almost like govt. departments with a very different and restrictive work environment.
Also now we are getting better quality work in India. In IT outsourcing focus has shifted from just coding to other things like R&D and Business Analysis.
Furthermore we should not forget that much of the ‘Indian Talent’ doesn’t remain in India for long. They head off for greener pastures to do their bachelors or masters. Many manage to find jobs in their adopted countries itself and settle there.
But in the recent past there has been an encouraging reversal to this. Students prefer to come back to India after their studies are completed.
India is not seen as a dead end kind of place any more. With a foreign degree in your hands you automatically become highly qualified. Thus the Indian student knows that their chances of finding a job in a top notch co. in India are much better than in their adopted country.
While there needs to be a shift within the Indian companies from bespoke development and services to product development backed by top notch R&D these things cannot come up overnight.
The Indian IT industry is just now waking up from the boom times… now that the headlong rush towards big money is easing off it is the perfect time to take stock of the situation and to plan ahead for the next big thing.
