Despite all its PR giri, and probably because of its middle-class moorings, Infosys has a well-earned reputation of being a company that is stuck up and a tad too serious. Unlike, say, Google, Apple or fill-your-favourite-company.
For a slide show at the IT major’s 29th annual general meeting, the post-Narayana Murthy, post-Nandan Nilekani generation of bosses bent backwards to inject some fun into the proceedings, allowing themselves to be photoshopped as Quick Gun Murugans and the 3 Idiots.
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churumuri 
downright uninspiring, unexceptional and unexpected from a company as infosys…i guess they can get more creative than this (no offence to bollywood as an industry or creativity) …….. at a time when infosys can employ the best PR companies, which they continue to engage in repeatedly over the years or an in-house team. Is this internal cost reduction fueled-creativity infusion exercise, trying too hard ? may be, yes…….
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Funny :-)
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Absolutely Unfunny. Perhaps mirrors the falling standards ( incl creative) at the factory..
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Sir..the Infosys is biggest IT coolie company. Never ever compare Infosys with companies like Google/Apple. Google/Apple are company of inventors/scientists who invent products. Not like Infosys who don’t invent anything, just hire software coolies for cheap cost and deliver a useless software full of bugs. Infosys is just a IT sweatshop without invention. God only knows why people want to join such a crap company like Infosys.
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Its always good to have top management, that can laugh at themselves. I have seen closely how uptight some of these folks can be!
Way to go folks…
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Infosys isn’t a products company, it is into services. So its staidness is understandable. Even among the product manufacturers very few big ones are flamboyant and Apple is the exception. Smaller ones, emergent giants? Maybe. But among the large companies, in every sector, in the US, this sort of theatrical play happens at internal gatherings, at all levels from the section to the corporation. As usual Churumuri is not in the know of things and is simply churning out a post for the sake of it.
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Self Mockery – requires guts!!…and when executed well – its quite funny. I think Infosys – did hit it right. ( at least by looking at the pictures posted in the blog).
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This is the handiwork of their CFO V. Balakrishnan. He peddled some bollywood remix stuff in their earlier AGM. They are pretty poor and i don’t get his sense of humour.
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IT Coolie’s comment is interesting..And yes,it is very much true to a great extent..
And yes,maybe they are trying to be ‘progressive’ and ‘trendy’..
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IT coolie:
>Not like Infosys who don’t invent anything, just hire software coolies
Innovation is of many types. Business innovation is about productivity, efficiency and cost-saving. Infy pioneered a few things in this arena.
But, you are right – Infy doesn’t invent in the classic ‘comp-science’ sense. So, it is a wonder, why it insists on hiring the best engineers. Even non-engineers will do for most of the work Infy does!
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It coolie:
>God only knows why people want to join such a crap company like Infosys.
I disagree here. It can’t be your case that people join a company to innovate! If people really wanted to innovate or take on challenges, they’d either start something on their own, or join a startup with a small, tightly knit team where each persons performance is critical to the success.
Most ‘employees’ in all industries are ‘coolies’. They are trading their time for money. Satisfaction comes with Work-life balance and security and such…
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This is what shareholders AGM have become. More of a media Hype.
So perhaps a media savvy company thought it think ‘out of the box’ to get the attention
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It coolie:
>God only knows why people want to join such a crap company like Infosys.
Boss, many coolies what u r talking about will have dependencies. Middle class indians will go to Infosys for money and a descent white color career. For them,Innovations and all the other sorts of science what u r talking about will never fetch basic needs of a family in a short span.
As far Infosys is concerned, according to me it is doing a great job. It is employing lakhs of young indians who will be deprived of Govt jobs.
Basic needs of a family will be more important than an innovation.
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gowda:
1. White color career?
2. The total strength of all infosys and subsidiary employees was 1,09,882 in 2009. See http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/software/Infosys-employee-strength-up-by-4429-in-Q3/articleshow/5437475.cms.
Not really ‘lakhs of young Indians’ after all.
3. IT coolie’s main point was: ‘never ever compare Infosys with companies like Google/Apple. Google/Apple are company of inventors/scientists who invent products.’ Hence his final rhetorical question. Taking his final point out of context and making an argument does not make much sense.
Harkol,
Optimizing labor arbitrage or doing some low end jugaad is innovation sure, but that argument can be extended to practically anything done in life. In any case IT coolie was talking of invention not ‘innovation’. Sweatshop it remains. The crude AGM entertainment seems to highlight this.
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Infosys is the new East India company.
Infosys is the Foxconn of India.
* Foxconn of China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn) is able to employ large numbers of people as wages in China are cheap. These are blue collar workers.
* Infosys’s business is based on wage arbitrage. It is able to buy Indian labour cheaply and sell abroad at higher billing. The collars are white though.
* Foxconn is the pride of China but is facing labor unrest. http://www1.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/business/Young-Workers-Lead-Growing-Labor-Unrest-in-China-96618569.html
* Infosys is the pride of India perhaps only because there is nothing else to be proud of ? The “IT superpower” is a big sweatshop.
The East India company and similar “companies” took slaves and coolies and transported them where money was to made, and made them “diaspora”…. the IT sweatshops are pretty much in the same trade.
What wonder then that all the NASSCOM allied IT sweatshops are driving the “diaspora” business. NRI education, NRI bollywood, NRI cricket, and other diaspora businesses go with it. And there is no stopping the juggernaut.
Imagine living in an Infosys campus and eating at the Infosys canteen and reading Infosys newsletters and your children going to an Infosys school. Google for “Pullman monopoly” (http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/events1.html) of the 1880’s.
Finally, nothing succeeds like success, and “yasyasti vittam so narah kuleenaha”.
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I am a fersher & hv got placed in infy ,also got palced in a small gurgaon-based company,i only hv theoretical knowledge,not much practical knowledge,i decided to join infy because of its training .plz suggest if my decision is right???
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Infosys has good foresight in signing up various alliances.
See from 1999 additions to the Board of Infosys.
http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/company-structures-ownership/6717432-1.html
Mutual reciprocal alliances have benefitted both side parties, don’t you agree ?
Way to go !
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Whether you call them “chop shops” or “body shops”, IT manpower companies like Infosys and others have been a great service to the world, supplying man power to keep costs low.
In a Techdirt article (at http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100118/0412297796.shtml ) Masnick observes that:
“….(I have been) an outspoken supporter of encouraging greater skilled worker immigration into the US, as I believe it’s much better to have those individuals working in the US, for US companies, rather than working at home against US companies”.
What do you think ? If these skilled workers were working at home (India) would they have worked “against US companies” ? Or would they have simply rotten away ?
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im like a infosays,,,,i have 2d year in mba……i hope & my aim im job to ur company
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