I'm not sure how accurate StatCounter is, given that most Linux users use adblockers. However, according to it, Linux has almost a 14% desktop share in India.

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    1 year ago

    As a MoS&E student in northern Europe I'd love to hear why these companies have such a bad rep over in India. They're doing massive recruitment drives at my uni (along with BCG) and sponsor a lot of student events, so I don't hear many bad things about them.

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      …because they just throw people at projects with no regard to skill set or level. Their business model is get contact, hire lots of tech grads, assign them to project, cross fingers. They've ended up with a reputation of not being able to execute, and they doing it by paying people at the start of their career the lowest amount they can. If you end up on one of these projects, and are actually capable, then everything gets heaped onto you.

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        1 year ago

        Ah, makes sense then why they're pushing so hard to have a presence at our universities. Hopefully I'll be able to avoid such employers in the future. Thanks for the heads up!

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        Also to add the Indian market is so saturated any "good one" you get knows their worth and dip out at the first opportunity. Leaves giant companies left holding the bag on a model that has skeleton crews containing all the tacit knowledge with no means to do anything. "Oh well just bring in vendors to do xyz" ignoring the operational cost going forward. The current business model employed by fortune 500 companies was and is unsustainable. Great for their bottom line though.