HCL hiring IT professionals -- Noida/Gurgaon/ Chennai

This sounds a lot like TCS - Tata Collaboration Services - a very large India based outsourcing company

Yep...I'm surprised they troll for US hourly rates so they can undercut the competition. Actually had this happen to me one time. Infosys contacted me regarding some "opportunities" and asked what my hourly rate would be for a certain project. Naive me didn't realize what was going on, so I gave them a figure. It was far more reasonable than the typical consulting rate (around $40/hr IIRC). Of course, never heard boo from them again.

"Global Economy", "Global Teamwork", "Right-sourcing", blah-blah-blah...sounds good on the surface. Then again, so does socialism/communism. Where's all those plush network engineering gigs that globalization is supposed to bring since we're farming out less-important commodity work? I guess HCL/TCS/Infosys got those jobs along with BPO, HR, call center/CRM, and other tasks. That begs the question: what do companies do anyway? We don't make stuff and we farm out basic business operations. What's left to manage? I really ought to go back to school so I can understand how this situation is sustainable! :-)

Guess I'm one of those inflexible IT workers that won't thrive in the "global information workforce"...hehe. Perhaps I'll leave IT and work in logistics. I could work with Chinese suppliers and help flood the US and EU with cheap Chinese crap with owner manuals written in Chinglish. I say that tongue-in-cheek, but then again...

Or, living here in the Midwest, I could get my soybean/corn farming on. I'd be hard-pressed to deal with some Microsoft tech named "Guru Raj" (no, I'm not making that up) and listen to him argue with me because of the cultural/language barrier to something as simple as the word "Yes".

Yeah, I'm not in favor of globalization all that much. :-)

Scott Perry wrote:

Yep...I'm surprised they troll for US hourly rates so they can undercut the competition. Actually had this happen to me one time. Infosys contacted me regarding some "opportunities" and asked what my hourly rate would be for a certain project. Naive me didn't realize what was going on, so I gave them a figure. It was far more reasonable than the typical consulting rate (around $40/hr IIRC). Of course, never heard boo from them again.

"Global Economy", "Global Teamwork", "Right-sourcing", blah-blah-blah...sounds good on the surface. Then again, so does socialism/communism. Where's all those plush network engineering gigs that globalization is supposed to bring since we're farming out less-important commodity work? I guess HCL/TCS/Infosys got those jobs along with BPO, HR, call center/CRM, and other tasks. That begs the question: what do companies do anyway? We don't make stuff and we farm out basic business operations. What's left to manage? I really ought to go back to school so I can understand how this situation is sustainable! :-)

Guess I'm one of those inflexible IT workers that won't thrive in the "global information workforce"...hehe. Perhaps I'll leave IT and work in logistics. I could work with Chinese suppliers and help flood the US and EU with cheap Chinese crap with owner manuals written in Chinglish. I say that tongue-in-cheek, but then again...

Or, living here in the Midwest, I could get my soybean/corn farming on. I'd be hard-pressed to deal with some Microsoft tech named "Guru Raj" (no, I'm not making that up) and listen to him argue with me because of the cultural/language barrier to something as simple as the word "Yes".

Yeah, I'm not in favor of globalization all that much. :-)

Scott Perry wrote: