How can we fight back against Infosys, TCS and other Indian consultancies?

[BlasterBates]

Dated 2018. I think where I work now they have filled the 600,000 vacancies with InfoSys alone.

So InfoSys started up in 2019 did they?

[DimPrawn]

So InfoSys started up in 2019 did they?

No they didn't and I only have my experience here from the last 2 years, but they are the goto place for filling every IT vacancy, they have zero issues with visa and work permits (it doesn't even get mentioned).

[jmo21]

This may be well known, but it surprised me.

A young Cognizant guy I was working alongside on my last contract, he had to pay for his own accommodation here in the UK after the first month or so in a hotel paid for by his company.

I guess this may well be standard practice, but I had no idea.

[Lance]

This may be well known, but it surprised me.

A young Cognizant guy I was working alongside on my last contract, he had to pay for his own accommodation here in the UK after the first month or so in a hotel paid for by his company.

I guess this may well be standard practice, but I had no idea.

yup.
They take the minimum amount that allows them a visa. And have to find all their living expenses out of that.
It's why a lot of them end in house shares.

[GhostofTarbera]

This may be well known, but it surprised me.

A young Cognizant guy I was working alongside on my last contract, he had to pay for his own accommodation here in the UK after the first month or so in a hotel paid for by his company.

I guess this may well be standard practice, but I had no idea.

Yup standard practice

12 to a house


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[elsergiovolador]

Yup standard practice

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To a house? That's a luxury. Try 12-bed dorm room and beds shared with night shift workers.

[Paralytic]

And in my 20 years experience in banking not once has the outsourced company found a local resource to fill one of there teams vacancy - not once out of thousands of roles

I've been placed by TCS at one of the major retail banks. This was just over 2 years ago.

[rogerfederer]

It is how the corporate world works. They win contracts and they fulfil them however they see fit.
The reason that they get so many contracts and practices are so widespread could be a sign that is not random practice but actually done by design.

I would be more upset with the upper class and the architects of this society who probably believe that contractors have too many freedoms, wage growth has been too high and you need an more oppressing environment for the people to stay in line.
That is how you reach the current state of society.
It has to do with control and productivity and keeping a balance and trust in society. What some pesky group in the society thinks, is irrelevant.

Wage growth in contracting has not been high or positive. From 1998 it's been a downwards trend overall. It's been much worse since the Conservative&Unionist party has been repeatedly elected, to the extent that I thought their own base would have scaled back voting for them. It seems not.

Even if the regular hardcore Tories on this forum would still vote for them again in a future election, as if it's their football team they're irrationally backing. The Tories support large corporations and that's what you're seeing with this funneling of projects to extremely poor quality companies. I have no qualms in telling companies to avoid HPE, DXC, TCS, WiPro, InfoSys and similar. Their pathetic performance on projects and front running (awaiting the first client payment before even beginning to work on a project, whilst pretending to have worked on it for months before the first payment), as well as hiring very poor quality staff abroad, are the reasons why they bid cheap on tenders.

[DimPrawn]

Wage growth in contracting has not been high or positive. From 1998 it's been a downwards trend overall. It's been much worse since the Conservative&Unionist party has been repeatedly elected, to the extent that I thought their own base would have scaled back voting for them. It seems not.

Even if the regular hardcore Tories on this forum would still vote for them again in a future election, as if it's their football team they're irrationally backing. The Tories support large corporations and that's what you're seeing with this funneling of projects to extremely poor quality companies. I have no qualms in telling companies to avoid HPE, DXC, TCS, WiPro, InfoSys and similar. Their pathetic performance on projects and front running (awaiting the first client payment before even beginning to work on a project, whilst pretending to have worked on it for months before the first payment), as well as hiring very poor quality staff abroad, are the reasons why they bid cheap on tenders.

I am "woke" from voting LibLabCon.

Not that voting anything ever solves globalisation, immigration or big business lobbying for cheap workers to bring everyone down to the lowest incomes.

[BigDataPro]

This may be well known, but it surprised me.

A young Cognizant guy I was working alongside on my last contract, he had to pay for his own accommodation here in the UK after the first month or so in a hotel paid for by his company.

I guess this may well be standard practice, but I had no idea.

I don't know why it was a surprise to you. When coming here on a intra-company transfer, flight tickets and initial accommodation (4 weeks) is given by the company. Apart from that, they are on their own.

What you may have failed to notice is that they also get paid in India every month while working and getting paid here.