IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S

Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S by likelynew on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:47PM (#15368529)

I am studying in college that has is not known by most people in India, and the official average here is around 18 LPA. I have the stats from the placement unit of our college. For IITB and BITS Pilani, I can confirm from friends it's around 27 LPA. This is one public stat I can find: http://www.selaqui.org/iit-jee/placement.php. Average is 24.67 LPA for CS, and it's from 2011-12. I don't know why you reacted with so much disbelief, when every one and every newspaper tells that average for IT placement is very good.

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Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S by GordonS on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:31PM (#15368878)

I reacted with such disbelief because I know many people that work for big consultancies such as Capgemini, Cognizant and Infosys, and even in tier 1 and 2 cities with 10+ years' experience they don't make that much. Hell, many consultancies bill their EU and US clients less than those figures!

I also hire directly for our own office in Mumbai from time-to-time, so I know that market rates are.

Just look at any jobs board - even for experienced devs, its rare to find such high paying jobs, e.g.

http://www.timesjobs.com/jobs-in-mumbai/it-jobs

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Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S by likelynew on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:57PM (#15369145)

Companies such as Wipro, TCS, Cognizant and Infosys are considered lowest in this sector. No kidding, they pick up 1000s in a single day from a single college. e.g. see http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/placement/statistics_2015.html

> SRM University sets new placement record of 6064 on Day 1

> The highest offer was from Wipro 1641, followed by TCS 1611, Cognizant 1506 and Infosys 1306.

You can imagine the quality of interview when they have interviewed at least 1500 students on a single day.

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Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S by thisisit on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:25PM (#15368822)

That is because you are looking at a cherry picked data to make your point. From the link: The department-wise average and highest salaries are shown below. The overall average and highest salaries stand at 8.98 LPA and 68.5 LPA respectively.

So the average salary is 8.98 lakh. Unlike what you might like to believe there are many non-IT people working in IT, specially in places like IBM. So their salary will be even lower than 8.98 lakhs.

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Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S by likelynew on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:53PM (#15369110)

Of course.. It's not cherry picking. I said IT sector is doing pretty well in India. I never claimed anything other than that. Most majors have hard time finding any job in their sector.

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Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S by thisisit on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:59PM (#15369158)

And the point I am trying to make is - It is not the spring you believe it to be. Let's take a look at actual IBM India salary, should we? Here's the data from glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Salary/IBM-Salaries-E354.htm

Most freshers get near to Associate Systems Engineer. The salary range is between 3.7 lakhs to 8.65 lakhs. This is farcry from what you believe it is. Yes, there are colleges whose salaries are pushed to the limit thanks to the startups but majority are not as well of as you might think.

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Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S by likelynew on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:08PM (#15369218)

> And the point I am trying to make is - It is not the spring you believe it to be. Let's take a look at actual IBM India salary, should we? Here's the data from glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Salary/IBM-Salaries-E354.htm

Yeah, I concede. For some reason, I had the belief that IBM is one of the better paying company in India, but it pays on the level of inferior consultancies.

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