I have worked closely with Indian engineers and their code quality is pathetic. No offense meant, but that is the sad truth.

A few months ago I’ve already won two packs of beer, since my friend Christophe was betting on the acquisition of Capgemini by Infosys. I won, and I am insisting: Wipro will not buy Capgemini. Let’s do the maths : Wipro market capitalizatio…

Wypro or any Indian take over to Capgemini is impossible because the shareholders value of the buyer will decrease after the deal. India SSII have an average growth at 20% whereas Accenture and Capgemini are below 10% and bigger. The global firm after the take over will have a far lesser growth, which will not benefit to Indian firm’s shareholders.

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I didn’t leave the IITs etc out, if you are going to hire engineers off these premium institutes, you are also going to pay them as much as you would an MIT or stanford graduate, there is no cost-benefit in that case whatsoever. The only point I was making is that there are no cost-savings in having a workforce in India for US companies. With that being the case, it just makes more sense having a local workforce that understands their own market.

Exactly!

And using Google in the headline of this story and using the term “uber” is a joke (sorry). Too bad this guys wife wasn’t with this “uber” company when it was selling off parts (hundreds of millions of dollars worth) of the recently acquired E&Y consulting business. And the tens of thousands that lost jobs because of a very incompetent CG management team!

Again, Wipro is doing CG a huge favor. Too bad they’ll get burned in the end…

I am trying to imagine a list of companies that have engaged CapGemini and either:

A) don’t already have a services contract with Wipro and will look to consolidate the contracts, or

B) had a services contract with Wipro and threw them out of the building

I can’t see how this list adds up to $7B. Wipro is doing CapGemini a favor and they’ll regret it later.

– Umm yes the west can compete …. the fact is companies like Wipro and TCS are crap. I have worked with their developers on a multitude of projects and the fact is their code often doesnt work, and if it does work good look trying to ever upgrade it.

I have seen first year college students with better development skills.

A good post. I have been reading TC for more than a year now and I think many of us TC readers do not mind the non web 2.0 news. Actually that will give a much needed diversity to the content of TC. Otherwise TC runs the danger of contents becoming a re run of earlier stories with the name of the companies being changed.

@Pranav
You seem to have missed the IITs, NITs and many other good institutes altogether. In India you can always hire the exact quality of engineer you want.

@Others. Even I do not think that India will replace the US workforce. This is not a zaro sum game. Actually India will help US move ahead on the learning curve instead of continuing to do the same things repeatedly. If you look at the history of US, everytime US has faced a threat of this nature, it has come out stronger. Any1 remembers the threat of Japan in automobiles?? The gains in computing more than compensated the loss of jobs in automobiles.

Del bid fra Oracle e Bea abbiamo già parlato, e chiaramente è una cosa che ha riscosso un certo interesse perchè coinvolge due fra i più grossi player del settore. Ma anche qui non si scherza, e inoltre, almeno stando a quanto mi ricordo, è una de…

From where is Wipro taking another $4.4 billion from ???

Does anyone know….??

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I hate calling any sort of customer service line because of it to.

Oh, and BTW, its been dugg. Get it up there!

The typical computer science graduate here is a lot less talented, knowledgeable and contributive to production than a typical american CS graduate. A lot of factors go into this, It’s much easier to get a university degree here. Many IT workers have had their primary education done in various Indian languages - not English, there is a shortage of local IT workforce in urban areas, most people migrating from smaller towns and villages to work in big-city IT companies aren’t adept at all at understanding and working for a market that is thousands of miles and many cultures away .

Riya, the Indian company behind like.com is I guess the only web (2.0) company that made a very intelligent cost saving decision a few months ago to move their entire tech staff to the US.

Apple shut down their call-center in India less than a year ago too, they apparently thought they’d rather pay more somewhere else for better performing staff than to waste thousands of hours to train their Bangalore customer support staff.

Don’t get me wrong, There is a lot of scope in Indian IT, India is a wealthy country (of the one billion people, the middle class is but a small percentage, but it’s more the the US population), there is a huge and quickly growing local market for tech and web companies. Put into a marketplace america perspective, however, having your entire workforce in India is a terribly bad deal in the long term.

Looking forward to this.

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So if Wipro acquires CapGemini will their work force move to india?

I highly doubt it..

it’s just a power shift.. nothing much..

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