Bura na mano holi hai.... Tuesday, February 27, 2007

I remember when i was back in India working for software company in Mumbai, everyone including myself use to always desire to go onsite. We always worked hard, tried impressing our Managers that we are the best, and if sent to onsite, we will do unbelievable things.

I even remember, I had argued with my Manager's manager when he selected some senior person from team to go onsite, just because he had more years of experience. Things are different back home. Number of years and age makes lot of difference. I always argued(positively) with my manager that in software industry number of years doesn't matter. Its completely different setup as compared to any other engineering field.

My manager was quite frank and a good friend. I even once told him that every company should adopt Extreme programing wherein the important people in company/team are those who do coding and managers should be out of job. My manager was kind enough to allow me to raise such comments. I am sure any other manager would have got offended.

Its been more than 4 years now, I still keep in touch with this Manager on mails. I am sure if anytime I plan to go back to India, I want to join his team and work for him.

In Indian software industry I have surely realized that its absolutely small world. So never ever get in to bad books of any manager or team lead. If you quit the job and think that you have escaped, you might find same person as your new manager's close friend.




This weekend is Holi. Holi signifies to get reed of bad things and celebrate goodness.
Do you have any bad thing around you ?

It could be some physical thing or thought or relation or past act or differences ..anything that you now think should have not happened. Pick up something this Holi and get reed of it. Life is too short to waste in silly things. I will be at Sunnyvale temple playing with colors and they also arrange for Bhang..yes BHANG...

If you are in some small city in USA and dont have such grand celebration, atleast get together with few desi friends to have fun..Happy Holi and take care...

posted by DesiCrunch @ 10:52 PM, ,

How does Desi techie think while in India. Tuesday, February 13, 2007

In one of the recent article "How to keep your consulting contract entended", writer has very nicely jot down points which can help not just consultants but any one at work place.

I got few more thoughts when in end writer has raised a point that, once COnsultants or that matter most of Desi techies start earning good salary they stop upgrading themself with latest stuff.

Is this true only for many Desi techies in USA or this is an universal issue ?

lets try to look at picture where a decent techie is working in India for some software house. What are usual goals in his/her mind ?

Many want to go Onsite.
Many want to switch job and get may be 50-70% hike
Many want to switch for better brand.

Woring conditions while in India are completely different from what do we have here in USA.

While i was working In India, I had to work at least 12 hours. It was very common to work hard and long hours. Most companies have a trend that only if you work lonf hours you work well.

Indian Managers are also responsible for whole set up. They come up with task goals which perhaps has less resource or less time factor. They give motivation to techies by promising either onsite or hikes. these promise comes true many times(not always).

Indian software industry is all about service industry. We want more billable work from some client. And to bid these new contracts or to get more work outsource they come up with goals or estimates which makes life tough for all people at lower level.


Theres one Big question i want to ask to all Desi techies.

Have we ever tried to find out where does all earnings go ?

If a company gets a contract worth 1 million dollar (around 4.5 crore rupees) which happens within 1 years time. And there is team of 20-30 people working on it(most of them in India, few in USA).

Who gets how much money.

I am sure non of us working for some software company knows who gets how much.

Do you think its important to know about it ?

I am not sure if you will ever get to know about how these finance gets distributed, how much is profit, how much of it comes to you.

I just want to raise a thought that while we are working late nights and worrying about some onsite trips or next appraisals, why not try to find out how these finance works.

Next time you are giving interview for some new job and interviewer or H.R asks you "if you have any questions?"

Ask them can you give some idea about how finance gets distributed. If they dont have answer, ask them why should not eevryone know about it. Why should only top 10-15 people know who makes most of money from it.

If Infosys makes revenue of billion dollars and profit of millions of dollars, and I get salary of 30 thousand rupees(around 600 dollars). How many people get how much money ?

Is it illegal to know how is finance/earning distributed ?

I dont think so, if you work hard to reain business for a company, you want to know how things work all the way up.

Only reason you dont know the answer for all these questions or will never bother to know about it is, because as soon as we get next raise or promise for onsite trip we forget about everything else and remain as it is.

If you have any points for me, leave me a comment

posted by DesiCrunch @ 11:11 AM, ,