Focus has to be a lot about self-learning, says Nasscom Senior VP Sangeeta Gupta.
Investors are already factoring in the impact. The IT Index on the BSE exchange dipped 2.5 per cent, with Infosys, Wipro and TCS showing a decline.
Engineering students continue to prefer working with IBM as it is the most preferred brand.
The advent of internet of things, blockchain, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars has also created huge business opportunities for online training platforms such as Udacity and Coursera.
To attract people from tier-1 colleges IT services companies must increase payment to freshers: Mohandas Pai.
Anant Gupta, HCL Technologies' chief has an amazing success formula to get things done.
Pai argued that at a time when the salary for entry level software engineers had not been raised in the IT industry in India for the past seven years, it was totally wrong to hike the compensation for top-level executives.
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Software giant Wipro's Azim Premji donated Rs 9,713 crore or Rs 27 crore a day to retain his top rank among Indian philanthropists in FY21. Premji, the founder chairman of the company, increased his donation by nearly a fourth during the pandemic year, as per the Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2021, which had HCL's Shiv Nadar at second place with contributions of Rs 1,263 crore towards upliftment causes. Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, India's richest man, came third on the list with a Rs 577 crore contribution and was succeeded by Kumar Mangalam Birla with Rs 377 crore.
The firm, which has sacked 1,000 employees, says nothing new about it, laggards weeded out every year, this year is no different
The companies include Larsen & Toubro, Hindustan Unilever, Infosys, TCS and Sun Pharma
The Netherlands has emerged as India's fifth-largest export destination in 2021-22 (FY22), jumping from its 10th position a year ago. Exports to the fifth-largest economy in the European Union (EU) bolted 94 per cent to $12.5 billion in the financial year ended March 31. In FY22, the Netherlands surpassed Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK, Germany, and Nepal to become India's largest export destination in the EU. Germany, which was earlier India's top European export destination (eighth position), has now dropped two ranks to 10th place.
At least 2,00,000 traders encountered difficulties in August, September, and October since there was no editing facility in summary return filing.
Building front-end and stitching it with back-end is a task that IT firms are learning the hard way, finds Raghu Krishnan.
AI, cloud computing, data analytics are a few areas companies are looking for proficiency in
In the past two years, Sikka has brought in new measures by putting project managers to pitch how they cut time, saved costs and improved productivity
One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
While New Jersey, US-based OrbitBeyond leads a consortium of subcontractors who have designed and developed hardware for deep space missions, Bengaluru-based Team Indus is leading OrbitBeyond's lander engineering, reports T E Narasimhan.
With Democrats having an upper hand in US Congress, the Donald Trump administration will find it difficult to come up with any future legislative changes with regard to visa regulations.
W12 Studios will be part of TCS Interactive, further strengthening the already impressive array of creative and experience services it offers
Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The record in net addition from the top four was in 2016-17, of 59,427 employees.
Sector experts say rising pressure on margins owing to price discounts on the core business, increased hiring in the US and emergence of new technology areas are key reasons for such cost cutting.
Over the last years, taking the helm at Infosys has always had a strong resemblance with taking a roller-coaster ride
The denial rate jumped from 4% to 41% for Tech Mahindra, from 6% to 34% for TCS, from 7% to 53% for Wipro and from just 2% to 45% for Infosys.
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TCS is hiring from over a hundred engineering campuses, MBA graduates from top B-schools in the US
Indian IT industry veterans believe lack of maturity from the political leadership may have helped people in the US to take advantages.
Three engineers in their mid-20s, from start-up company Telmoco Development Labs in Trivandrum's consumer electronics incubator Technopark, who developed this Android phone want to make their product company as successful as Infosys is as a services company.
Training a person for 16 weeks (4 months) in the US costs something like $50,000 (around Rs 21.25 lakh). However, the education system is much better in the US. So we provide short-term training courses of about 15 days for new recruits there
Ajit Mishra answers reader queries on the stock market.
Companies are expected to firm up their business plans for the second half of the year.
Most of the hirings are, however, in the entry or junior level.
At times of slow growth, India has seen number of graduates doubling since 2008 to almost 25 million in 2016
As Covid-19 cases recede, India Inc is once again tweaking work rules. Big tech companies such as TCS, Wipro and Infosys have either begun or are in the process of calling employees back to office in a staggered manner. A survey by Aon, a global professional services firm, has found that 60 per cent of tech firms now expect every second employee to come to office. More than half of the employees working in engineering and manufacturing firms are also being asked to return to work.
This challenge has been made a little more daunting with the addition of two new uncertainties.
Persistent, L&T Technology and TechM named among leading service providers
With this, the total strength of TCS's board has increased to 11.
Amid headwinds across global markets, US issues fresh restrictions on H-1B visas. Ayan Pramanik & Raghu Krishnan list out the many ways in which this impacts the Indian IT industry.
Ex-employee Steven Heldt had sued the company for favouring South Asians and discriminating against American workforce.
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