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A lawsuit by four IT workers alleging that outsourcing firm Infosys favored hiring Indian workers over U.S. workers now includes an account from a former Infosys recruiter about the alleged practice. It includes accounts by Samuel Marrero, who worked in Infosys's talent acquisition unit from 2011 until May 2013, of meetings with executives at the India-based IT services firm. Marrero and other recruiters "frequently complained" to higher-ups at Infosys during these weekly calls that many of the highly qualified American candidates they had presented were being rejected in favor of Indian prospects. In response to one of these complaints, Infosys' global enterprise lead allegedly said, "Americans don't know $#!%," according to the lawsuit. Infosys has denied allegations that it discriminates.
On July 10, Computerworld wrote about this lawsuit, and asked Infosys in advance for a comment. The company finally responded on July 18, saying in part:
"It is incorrect to insinuate that we exclude or discourage U.S. workers. Today, we are recruiting to fill over 440 active openings across 20 states in the US. These include 300 openings for professional hires and about 140 openings targeting local and recent MBA graduates, Masters degree holders and under graduates to bolster our sales and management consulting teams. This hiring program is a key investment to strengthen our future leadership pool. The program will see us investing in an extensive training and leadership-mentoring exercise to groom young MBAs for a rewarding career with us.
"Attracting the best and brightest talent is paramount to Infosys' success," the company said in the July 18 statement. "We are committed to creating a work environment where every employee feels included, valued and respected."
Infosys officials could not be reached for comment on the recently amended complaint.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:07PM
There is some humor in the situation where in public a HR chick categorizes someone as "highly qualified" and someone who actually knows what they're doing describes the same candidates as "don't know $#!%" This has probably only played out about 50 million times in the last decade in pretty much every field but especially STEM and even more so in IT. Of course most of the time the race card isn't being played, or trying to drag immigration politics into it, or whatever, its just the usual HR led dilbertification.
Then there is the side issue that no one volunteers to work with certain last ditch employers because they're H1B farms etc. There is also truth in this assessment that "highly qualified" as a wal mart people greeter can most certainly simultaneously mean "don't know $#!%". There is no polite way to put it, that place is not exactly google with respect to aspiration. "well, I need to pay the mortgage and the kids are starving and shoeless, so I'll hold my nose and work there until I can get a real job at a real employer". Maybe a polite way to describe them is as not a highly qualified employer. Its kind of like working at McDonalds if you're a professional chef, well, it is the food service business and its better than watching Judge Judy reruns while being unemployed, but ...
This doesn't imply everything else in the conversation about their well known H1B fraud problem and their well known racism problem isn't true.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:12PM
"HR chick"
"Samuel Marrero"
Err, ah, whoops. In my defense, observationally over about 3 decades, I've only once known of a single male HR employee, whereas I've known several female programmers / engineers.
We hear endless SJW complaints about no women in STEM but not so much from the same crowd about no men in HR, just to further muddy the waters.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:17PM
The cause of the flawed HR evaluation of employee competence found?