Having worked in the IT industry for over 7 years and after having worked few different companies, I have a fair amount of idea on the recruitment process and what people really are looking for.
When it comes to hiring a developer each recruiter wants to hire a developer who is the best and wants to pay a meager salary. Recently one of my friend got an offer from a company, he has about 5years of experience and he got an offer of 6.5 lakhs.
I mean what kind of shit is that ?
People want best resource but they want to pay less, so that the senior managers of the team can show cost cuttings or lower budget and they themselves get good appraisal / hike for running business on low cost ? What crap.
Also while recruitment there comes into picture a thing called technology. Its a specific area where a person has worked or specializes As a software engineer people are willing to learn and adopt any new technology. But who will allow them to adopt?
If you have worked on technology A for 5 years, but the requirement is for Technology B,. do u think you will even get shortlisted ??? who wants your 5 years experience on a different technology ?
Technology B means technology B.. who wants Technology A...
Assume a derby race.. you have horses running over there. Suppose if you bring a untrained horse which needs to be groomed for may be 3 -5 days .. you think you can run the horse in the derby? . I guess may be after 3-5 days.. but in IT industry its different.. you do not stand a chance.
But bring a donkey which is wrapped in the skin of a horse into the derby and tell its ready to run the race.. Its allowed though it ends last or may not even finish.. but its allowed.
The Indian IT industry is like that.. One technology people are not entertained in interviews for another technology.. Unless they provide fake experience and prepare for interview questions from the website. (wrapping donkey in a horse skin I mean).
If you think that the job is so challenging that it needs a real developer instead of someone who needs to be groomed, you are wrong.. India is the outsourcing hub.. you can imagine what kinds of projects we end up with. You can get the job done by a high school drop out, forget having an engineering degree..
Cheers
Disclaimer - any co-incidence is regretted.. this post is my personal opinion.
When it comes to hiring a developer each recruiter wants to hire a developer who is the best and wants to pay a meager salary. Recently one of my friend got an offer from a company, he has about 5years of experience and he got an offer of 6.5 lakhs.
I mean what kind of shit is that ?
People want best resource but they want to pay less, so that the senior managers of the team can show cost cuttings or lower budget and they themselves get good appraisal / hike for running business on low cost ? What crap.
Also while recruitment there comes into picture a thing called technology. Its a specific area where a person has worked or specializes As a software engineer people are willing to learn and adopt any new technology. But who will allow them to adopt?
If you have worked on technology A for 5 years, but the requirement is for Technology B,. do u think you will even get shortlisted ??? who wants your 5 years experience on a different technology ?
Technology B means technology B.. who wants Technology A...
Assume a derby race.. you have horses running over there. Suppose if you bring a untrained horse which needs to be groomed for may be 3 -5 days .. you think you can run the horse in the derby? . I guess may be after 3-5 days.. but in IT industry its different.. you do not stand a chance.
But bring a donkey which is wrapped in the skin of a horse into the derby and tell its ready to run the race.. Its allowed though it ends last or may not even finish.. but its allowed.
The Indian IT industry is like that.. One technology people are not entertained in interviews for another technology.. Unless they provide fake experience and prepare for interview questions from the website. (wrapping donkey in a horse skin I mean).
If you think that the job is so challenging that it needs a real developer instead of someone who needs to be groomed, you are wrong.. India is the outsourcing hub.. you can imagine what kinds of projects we end up with. You can get the job done by a high school drop out, forget having an engineering degree..
Cheers
Disclaimer - any co-incidence is regretted.. this post is my personal opinion.
