What do you guys make of the changes to the TECDP program that were announced this morning? To me, this seems like a move to slowly ki-l the program and to shift the hiring of new tech grads to HIH instead of from US universities. Also, I’m curious about why the sites being deprioritized were chosen. These seem like location where recent college grads would want to live.
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@pk There are good and bad in both groups. You could argue that TECDPs may be more motivated given the job market for onshore but that doesn’t dismiss the facts that on paper the experience is similar and HIH is significantly cheaper. For someone in SLT or CSuite, they might argue the same. I have experience with both good and bad from both groups. It’s actually cringe worthy to think about some of the TECDPs that came and went because they didn’t care since the stint was just another rotation.
What sites are chosen and what are deprioritized?
For those who don’t know, essentially they’re sunsetting the 3-year rotational model and gravitating towards a 2-year non-rotational one.
They announced the changes back in April, and all TECDPs who were underneath the old model were told that they would have one final opportunity to rotate (and given a month to find a new team).
They also took away the opportunity to post out as a Band 4 upon program completion, so all remaining TECDPs would remain Band 3.
HIH is not the same skillset. The amount of messed up stuff I have to fix because they don’t understand English and because someone thought an SOP would be accurate enough to replace training and experience is astounding.
I’m not sure what the details entail but based on the most recent class, I noticed majority are grads from CT. I would argue the future for non CT grads would be slim to none and would not be surprised if the pool in CT becomes more competitive as well. HIH is just plain cheaper for around the same skillset. It’s not fair but that’s unfortunately how capitalism works. You can only pray that the economy boosts up again and client dissatisfaction forces the return of onshore presence. This feels like a repeat of 2012-2016 but worse, especially for technology folks.
What were the changes that were announced?
@af as a prev tech intern who converted. Just speaking from my perspective as a recent student
I mean isn’t the TECDP for recent college grads? a lot of college curriculums are outdated and teaches more theory side of tech unless they’ve done a lot of internships hands on projects related to AI
Not necessarily. They want someone can dive in deeper instead of broader. They need more AI talents. Don’t be surprised if they start the TECDP for HIH employees, or maybe they already have.