They are likely to make a decision shortly regarding the GCC structure and associated work effort. Cognizant and Infosys appear to be the leading contenders for the GCC efforts. Heard some concerns that the process may have been influenced in a way that disproportionately favors Indian IT firm Infosys. Several technology leaders who work extensively with these partners were not included in the evaluation process
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When clients are forced to choose between an AI chatbot or talking to someone with an accent too thick to understand, they’re not going to be too happy
@ab So what you’re saying is “you can’t work from home because you’re too far away at your apartment…so we’re going to hire someone in India instead”? Make it make sense.
@db only 5 offshore to 1 onshore?
The offshore team I work with is over 12 people and the 1 intern (fresh out of college) we hired still has to redo all the work they do.
indian fraud is 10x worse than somalians in this company. fortunately for them the topic is not well understood by our leadership.
Good old Lori lol
During my time in Mortgage servicing ,I witnessed Lori and co award contracts in dozens to Infosys. If her preferences prevail, more than three-fourths of the bank could outsourced to Infosys
Wait till the data is leaked in the private unsecured residences in these tiny bungalow towns. All to save a few bucks will end up costing the executive level their jobs, and possibly end up in prison.
No matter how hard you try, you cannot escape the fact that you get what you pay for. Yes, Infosys is cheap, but it requires 5 of them to do one onshore teammate's job. Once you discover this, you find out it costs MORE money and the quality is not as good.
We have contractors leaving in droves. All the good software and QA engineers are trying to leave. Their LinkedIn profiles have "Open to work" on them. Writing is on the wall. We'll be left with subpar technology contractors who can barely speak English and write and test code at a rudimentary level.
US remote work has nothing to do with the expansion of Infosys resources. Infosys is in game because of low cost vs US cost. It's just that plain & simple.
They all are moving to Pune with completed T1 connections and no RTO politics
When Onshore Teammates don't want to leave their apartments these are the choices made.