TCS, Infy, Wipro and most other IT service companies are crap. They're bodyshops with zero innovation. All they do is outsource shitty IT work to cheap labour. Crappy service based companies will never have brand value like Google, Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft.
This is a generalist statement from a layman. 6-7 years ago, even I would have thought on similar lines. Conventional wisdom. Easy on ears. But, now I can only scoff. Why ?
Because, I am paid to put myself in my clients' shoes & these sweatshops are my rivals who are outgunning us (MNC's) in every other deal. These bodyshops are highly successful business models & classic case-studies taught in Ecoles as well as IIM. Needless to say, some of these blue-chips have made millionaires of countless denizens from Indian middle-class.
It was more than a decade ago that IBM realized that there is real money to be made is in services, not products & today IBM is classified as primarily, a services company. IBM hardly has any traction in x86 space. It's hardware goes mostly where it is talking up the TIO or has tied up with partner winning the deal. Elsewhere, IBM hardware is lagging HP's & Dell's. Still, IBM works.
So, what does IBM really do ? Sub-contracting to middle-tier IT players. What does the rest of top-tier IT services players do ? Sub-contracting. So, what does everyone else do ? Copy IBM, what else.
What IBM does today is copied by HP's, Dell's & Fujitsu's tomorrow. So, what is wrong with that ? Nothing. It is a sustainable business model that has proved itself over decades.
However, there are a few Indian IT (product) companies with worldclass products eg:
- Browserstack
- inMobi
Worldclass products ? Can you define a world-class product ? How many registered patents do these companies have with USPTO ? Everyone realizes that such talk has been flavor of the moment for some time....Products.......innovation......next level. However, successful businesses need more than this.
Anyway, one can line up many more such Indian companies but have these companies proved their mettle yet ? They are not even listed.
I suggest, spend some time in the industry & if possible, do a regular MBA from an institute of repute. Successful business are never made on hype & thin air.
btw Chinese have their own search engines and social networks so we Indians need to STFU.
Fortunately, I do not have such massive inferiority complex & neither do I get carried away so easily because I deal with companies/clients/colleagues based in China, up, close & personal. Our strengths & weaknesses are different. Alibaba would be the first real Chinese technology brand with visibility in US.
Not really. Campus placements for some of these companies are actually tougher, the criterion is more stringent.
Just don't go by whatever you hear. Try it. Piece of cake.
Off-campus placements are easier. Amazon for eg has a very low barrier for entry (you have to crack their online interview to get a call).
BCG invariably hires IIT-ians from IIM's (you read it correct) with almost religious fervor. MS has the lowest entry barrier if you are getting into GTSC. But, when you are in MS's R&D division, then you have made it. Google's off-campus is no secret. You got to be really smart lateral thinker (literally, not just for the heck of it) to get into. On the contrary, Google does not even have any requirement for minimum academic CGPA, when they are land up in IIT's for hiring. It is in face-to-face rounds where the tricky ones are fired. Facebook is somewhat different because it insists on academics, as well.
Amazon in India mostly hires for entry-level/junior-level coding jobs & some sales roles with 40% variable component in CTC
Cracking these are far from difficult. For a Sr. Architect (TOGAF) role, after all rounds of interviews are over, one needs to complete multiple scenario-based assignments over the weekend; & that is where majority of candidates give up.
If need be, ever, ask me & I would PM you the relevant contact for Amazon. No need of cracking any online interview. Straight-away face-2-face rounds.
