What is the dark side of a job at TCS?
Oh I'd love to write this.I'm a Computer Science Engineering graduate. It all started with a campus recruitment in our college. They had a target of recruiting around 300 students. To make this happen, they called out candidates from every branch possible. So you see, students from Civil engineering and mechanical engineering etc. also appeared.Their recruitment strategy, like any other company, had two rounds. Written test and interview. Whoever does well in written test will get qualified to personal interview. But guess what. All those who had their PU score more than 80% were qualified directly. Without the test.Now, the personal interview questions were like Which is your favorite subject? Do you know programming? How many programs have you written till today? Etc etc etc...With this standard of interviews, they made their target to about 280 guys.Now the real fun begins. They broke 280 people into two batches, and put one of the batches to something called Application Support. Not even the technical side of it. More worse, some even had to attend calls just like BPO's and deal with customers and their problems on how to use this product.So the great TCS hired a hundred and a half Engineers and made them do a job that even a metric pass can do.This is not all. All of them are working in night shifts.So basically, all that my friends had learnt in 4 years of graduation was dumped into pure bullshit, thereby spoiling their lives forever.Thanks to my poor math skills. I didn't make it in the written test.
Can we shift from bpo to IT sector?
In most cases the answer is No or highly unlikely, if you’re looking to work in a BPO as a fresher,earn some experience & shift to the IT sector with a high package for yourself by cashing your experience.While BPO employees does perform several IT related stuff, there are also several whose job profiles has nothing to do IT or related to it. A System Admin or a Web Designer for International BPO’s might find the transition smooth whereas people whose only knowledge is about sales & marketing of certain products will find themselves at a dead end. Just because you have a CS degree,that doesn’t mean your unrelated work experience will allow you to get any jobs you desire or the companies to dance at your whims or tunes. Even if they do allow it, you’ll be required to start as a fresher in the said industry or sector.