Indian it coolie

[coffee]

The journey of an Indian IT employee starts at the age of 20, when he/she is placed through “campus placements” in TCS, Infosys or Wipro from a tier 2 or tier 3 engineering college. He / She is on cloud nine!! A job straight out of college, a decent salary ( although not as much as a product company which takes only 1 or 2 people) and the chance to spend the next few months with friends who also got placed in the same company. The company took 400 people out of the 700 that were passing out that year. Your college put the company’s name up on a billboard and on their placement brochures also. Ya di *** da.

The next phase is the training phase, where you spend your time in Mysore, Chennai, Trivandrum, Hyderabad, or any of the other big cities that the IT companies have big offices in. The first paycheck, the first crush.. the first time away from home if you are a day scholar.. a lot of firsts. You studied civil engineering and don’t know how to code, but hey, no one seems to bother as long as you clear their simple coding tests. Life has never looked better.

Training is done, and you are now in a city of your choice, going to a swanky office and an ID card and all. Your parents have proudly told all their relatives and friends that you are a “software engineer” and are on the way to greatness. You learn to get to the bus on time, start to learn the art of pretending to work for long hours, and in general get “settled down.” This is how life is supposed to be.

Some of your friends start to smell the bullshit and are now busy preparing for GATE/ CAT/ IAS / Govt Jobs /MS abroad. You look at them and start to introspect. So far, you have done everything your friends have done, and society has only superimposed their belief in you that you have to go with the crowd.

You were never good at Civil Engineering anyways, so Mtech is out of the question. That leaves CAT. So you pay 70k for weekend classes at an institute that promises you a “seat at an IIM”. Everyone else is doing it. Why not me?

Meanwhile, you are now a “techie”, having spent 1 -2 years at the job, and as long as people see you combing your hair and wearing an ID card and going to the office on time, no one really bothers you. Your parents have even started looking at wedding alliances, especially if you are a girl.

Some of your friends clear CAT, most of them end up picking a tier 2 college so that they get the coveted MBA degree that will solve most of the problems. You, meanwhile, are too lazy to study and have a job in hand anyways. Who wants to change now no?

Time flies by.. You buy yourself a good bike with your money, maybe a car on EMI. You are 24 years old, are changing colours on an Excel sheet or running test cases through an outdated system, and are starting to wonder if you made the right choices. Because your job is not intellectually challenging and you are sitting and watching Youtube videos all day.

You buy a DSLR camera because everyone else has one, are all caught up on the latest movies because you need to fill the time you are sitting at the office, and are now moving on to Netflix.

TCS automatically promotes you to “ Senior Systems Engineer “ by now, and you have 2 juniors reporting to you who are also doing the same Ctrl+C, Ctrl +V job that you are doing. You finally drop the MBA plan, the MS from abroad plan, and are now focussed on only one thing - a fat paycheque.

You figure that to earn a respectable sum ( equal or more than your friend’s), you need to either switch jobs or get promoted. So you choose either of the two paths:

Path 1: Learn more about your technology, ask around, finish a certification course, lie on your resume, and join another service-based company for a 30 - 50% hike.

Path 2: Participate freely in office politics and grab the next promotion / on-site opportunity by sucking up to your manager.

Why do you want a fat paycheque? Because everyone else around is getting it!!

By this time, you are 27, and the matrimonial market is heating up. All your friends are getting married and posting pictures on WhatsApp / Facebook / Instagram.

So you give-in to your parent’s wishes, meet a girl or two, and finally settle down with a fellow techie who works in one of the other IT service companies and has a similar career graph as yours.

“Both my son and daughter in law are software engineers”, claim your parents, and your respect among the neighborhood aunties and the distant relatives who only show up on happy family occasions are boundless.

You work in TCS, have a wife in Infosys, are now so into office politics that you are numb to it.. and are just looking forward to the next weekend when you can binge-watch the latest Netflix series that everyone else in the office seems to be watching. ( Sacred Games / Game of Thrones / Peaky Blinders).

It is now time for you to “fully settle down”. How? Well, by buying a house, of course. Now, most of your salary goes in the EMI, your wife’s salary is barely enough to meet your upper-middle-class lifestyle needs, and you have a small baby now that needs to go to a school in a couple of years.

By this time, you are 30, and in the middle of an existential crisis.

Did you see a pattern? Most of the people in the IT industry follow what everyone else is doing, seeing life as some sort of sick bucket list where they end up ticking one box after next.

Job, Pay, DSLR, Bike, Car, Marriage, Better pay… Resentment. This is the cycle.

Most of these techies are not software engineers. They are just good at English and basic aptitude.

We have close to 50 lakh of these “software engineers”.. but not a single IT product that India can be proud of.

This sums up to me everything that is wrong with the Indian IT industry. Don't be the average Indian IT coolie.

[FrustratedVuncle]

4 minutes ago, coffee said:

The journey of an Indian IT employee starts at the age of 20, when he/she is placed through “campus placements” in TCS, Infosys or Wipro from a tier 2 or tier 3 engineering college. He / She is on cloud nine!! A job straight out of college, a decent salary ( although not as much as a product company which takes only 1 or 2 people) and the chance to spend the next few months with friends who also got placed in the same company. The company took 400 people out of the 700 that were passing out that year. Your college put the company’s name up on a billboard and on their placement brochures also. Ya di *** da.

The next phase is the training phase, where you spend your time in Mysore, Chennai, Trivandrum, Hyderabad, or any of the other big cities that the IT companies have big offices in. The first paycheck, the first crush.. the first time away from home if you are a day scholar.. a lot of firsts. You studied civil engineering and don’t know how to code, but hey, no one seems to bother as long as you clear their simple coding tests. Life has never looked better.

Training is done, and you are now in a city of your choice, going to a swanky office and an ID card and all. Your parents have proudly told all their relatives and friends that you are a “software engineer” and are on the way to greatness. You learn to get to the bus on time, start to learn the art of pretending to work for long hours, and in general get “settled down.” This is how life is supposed to be.

Some of your friends start to smell the bullshit and are now busy preparing for GATE/ CAT/ IAS / Govt Jobs /MS abroad. You look at them and start to introspect. So far, you have done everything your friends have done, and society has only superimposed their belief in you that you have to go with the crowd.

You were never good at Civil Engineering anyways, so Mtech is out of the question. That leaves CAT. So you pay 70k for weekend classes at an institute that promises you a “seat at an IIM”. Everyone else is doing it. Why not me?

Meanwhile, you are now a “techie”, having spent 1 -2 years at the job, and as long as people see you combing your hair and wearing an ID card and going to the office on time, no one really bothers you. Your parents have even started looking at wedding alliances, especially if you are a girl.

Some of your friends clear CAT, most of them end up picking a tier 2 college so that they get the coveted MBA degree that will solve most of the problems. You, meanwhile, are too lazy to study and have a job in hand anyways. Who wants to change now no?

Time flies by.. You buy yourself a good bike with your money, maybe a car on EMI. You are 24 years old, are changing colours on an Excel sheet or running test cases through an outdated system, and are starting to wonder if you made the right choices. Because your job is not intellectually challenging and you are sitting and watching Youtube videos all day.

You buy a DSLR camera because everyone else has one, are all caught up on the latest movies because you need to fill the time you are sitting at the office, and are now moving on to Netflix.

TCS automatically promotes you to “ Senior Systems Engineer “ by now, and you have 2 juniors reporting to you who are also doing the same Ctrl+C, Ctrl +V job that you are doing. You finally drop the MBA plan, the MS from abroad plan, and are now focussed on only one thing - a fat paycheque.

You figure that to earn a respectable sum ( equal or more than your friend’s), you need to either switch jobs or get promoted. So you choose either of the two paths:

Path 1: Learn more about your technology, ask around, finish a certification course, lie on your resume, and join another service-based company for a 30 - 50% hike.

Path 2: Participate freely in office politics and grab the next promotion / on-site opportunity by sucking up to your manager.

Why do you want a fat paycheque? Because everyone else around is getting it!!

By this time, you are 27, and the matrimonial market is heating up. All your friends are getting married and posting pictures on WhatsApp / Facebook / Instagram.

So you give-in to your parent’s wishes, meet a girl or two, and finally settle down with a fellow techie who works in one of the other IT service companies and has a similar career graph as yours.

“Both my son and daughter in law are software engineers”, claim your parents, and your respect among the neighborhood aunties and the distant relatives who only show up on happy family occasions are boundless.

You work in TCS, have a wife in Infosys, are now so into office politics that you are numb to it.. and are just looking forward to the next weekend when you can binge-watch the latest Netflix series that everyone else in the office seems to be watching. ( Sacred Games / Game of Thrones / Peaky Blinders).

It is now time for you to “fully settle down”. How? Well, by buying a house, of course. Now, most of your salary goes in the EMI, your wife’s salary is barely enough to meet your upper-middle-class lifestyle needs, and you have a small baby now that needs to go to a school in a couple of years.

By this time, you are 30, and in the middle of an existential crisis.

Did you see a pattern? Most of the people in the IT industry follow what everyone else is doing, seeing life as some sort of sick bucket list where they end up ticking one box after next.

Job, Pay, DSLR, Bike, Car, Marriage, Better pay… Resentment. This is the cycle.

Most of these techies are not software engineers. They are just good at English and basic aptitude.

We have close to 50 lakh of these “software engineers”.. but not a single IT product that India can be proud of.

This sums up to me everything that is wrong with the Indian IT industry. Don't be the average Indian IT coolie.

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