Large Indian Consultancies/IT Companies

[blossom]

Anyone have any experience of working directly for these (possibly though an agent).

Any thoughts?

[MrMarkyMark]

Anyone have any experience of working directly for these (possibly though an agent).

Any thoughts?

Don't do it.

[Eirikur]

Don't do it.

^^WHS

I worked for a US based tech giant, but through their Indian based subsidiary total and utter nightmare, name on my CV looks good though .

[NotAllThere]

I know one contractor working for one of these who ended up going into the office a few hours a week, and still getting full daily rate. The consultancy didn't have work for him, but was required to have a local presence.

..., name on my CV looks good though .

Really? To whom?

[BR14]

do it if you have the patience of a saint or are a zen master.
otherwise run away! run away!

[SueEllen]

If you do a search - and yes you have to go via Google - you will find this question has been answered a few times.

In short the answer is - DO NOT TAKE IT

There are a few tricks they use against contractors which is mentioned in the threads -
1. Getting rid of you when there is an India (cheaper) resource who they say can take your place mid-way through the contract, and/or,
2. Withholding invoice payment from you often for months, and/or,
3. Blaming you for everything that goes wrong with the project, and/or,
4. Making your life hell in other ways.

I know from working alongside Indian developers, testers etc on different contracts a lot of the individuals are nice but unfortunately their management is not. Even if you don't have anything to do with them if you happen to be on a site where their management comes in, you can see and overhear them bullying their staff as they don't always speak in Hindi.

[blossom]

*sigh*

Sigh...I wish I had joined this forum and asked this question a few months ago. I asked this question to see if my situation was common, and appears so.

I did join one - no names mentioned, but anyone who saw my earlier thread will know what I mean now...I can't believe how naive I was.

It's an absolute sweatshop, and yes I have seen, and been on the end of instances of bullying.

[MrMarkyMark]

Worked with a couple of ex. TATA people once.

They had hacked one of the systems I work with so badly it was a massive effort to change it.
Apparently a certain functionality didn't "work" with their data model. In fact the only data model I have come across, where it didn't work, in 25 years

(It would have really, they just didn't know how to set it up).

We had a massive falling out when I said I would like to test an existing (very badly put together) complex logic over a 6 month time frame before I made any changes to it.

Must grumbling ensued, we tested it at the time, works perfectly etc. etc.
coming from a certain protagonists mouth (who I would have liked to have filled in, given half a chance)

Turned out it had been fecking wrong all along

[Eirikur]

Really? To whom?

Agencies. They see the name of one of the biggest US based tech companies on my CV.

[blossom]

Agencies. They see the name of one of the biggest US based tech companies on my CV.

It's not gonna look good on mine when they see I sacked it in within 3 months