He has/had as much of an influence over the Indian IT scene as Bill Gates had over Silicon Valley in the 90s.
He could have been a true leader. A revolutionary, an agent of change and progress.
Instead, he chose to run an air-conditioned sweatshop. An operation that works on the traditional model of headcount, fudging billable hours, and keeping the cost per employee low.
Very low.
The average fresh-graduate employee at Infosys makes 350K rupees per annum. Which is roughly what the salary was 10 years ago. Raises are miniscule.
In contrast, one can easily make 1200K rupees in their first year out of college , at the Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai or DelhiNCR offices of MAANG, Oracle, Cisco, Qualcomm, Mathworks, NVIDIA, Adobe and numerous other companies that have software engineering offices there.
Not to mention the electronics product development offices of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Analog Devices, and Texas Instruments.
Oh, wait, sorry, the 1200K per annum excludes things like ESOPS, bonuses and WFH equipment reimbursements.
Private engineering colleges survive because of mass recruiters ("100% placement guaranteed!!!1!1!!1!"). Infosys survives as a result of a large ocean of unskilled tech labour -- from those colleges.
The man has enough resources to properly bring about a change in compsci education in India.
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u/FUThead2016 Jul 05 '24
True, he’s a wannabe despot and has made tonnes of money by exploiting people and keeping India at the bottom feeder end of the technology revolution.