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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: 3, Insightful) by Lagg on Wednesday October 08 2014, @05:45PM
I generally avoid saying things like this because people love to do the old knee jerk "you're racist" crap but since this guy (allegedly, but it wouldn't surprise me) started it with the generalizing: Fuck you, you incompetent piece of crap. Someone based in India that does outsourcing has absolutely no place whatsoever to be saying other people don't know shit. The reason that my once-fun and rewarding career in freelancing has turned into a depressing soul sucking existence is exactly because of companies like Infosys writing shitty, buggy code written with a very literal interpretation of spec and by people with absolutely no language (programming and otherwise) or autonomy skills whatsoever. I get hired to clean up after them and I get hired to manage them to make sure they don't mess things up anymore than they already did.
and no. It's not racism. I don't base this on skin color. I base it on a stereotype that a country has made for themselves and happily reinforced. Oh and here's another gold nugget from the article:
In other words, you want indians that have been doing this stuff in their own country for long enough that they've had the autonomy and desire to learn over producing the most lines of code beaten out of them. I knew even before this H1B stuff that Infosys wasn't exactly a high class company but this almost surprises even me.
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