India's Infosys To Hire 10,000 American Workers After Trump Criticism (bloomberg.com)

India's Infosys said it plans to hire 10,000 Americans in the next two years, following criticism from the Trump administration that the company and other outsourcing firms are unfairly taking jobs away from U.S. workers. From a report on Bloomberg: Infosys, which employs about 200,000 people around the world, will expand its local hiring in the U.S. while adding four hubs to research technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. The first location will open in Indiana in August 2017 and is expected to create 2,000 jobs for American workers by 2021, the company said.

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Re:It's About Pay: Outsourcing to Insourcing

[ranton]

Anybody here who would work for Infosys?

They'll be lucky to get C student, recent college graduates, useless air thieves to apply. Apparently, just like in India.

I don't even work for companies that use Infosys, let alone work for Infosys directly. I'm not opposed to using consultants, but Infosys, Tata, and WiPro are blacklisted for me. I find it hard to believe I would have executive level buy in to create quality enterprise software systems if they are already willing to use these companies. For a while I just used this as a red flag to investigate the company further, but after consistently being disappointed with what I found I just treat the usage of these outsourcing shops as a complete deal breaker.

I am a big fan of the idea of the H1B program and believe immigrants are the primary thing which has made and continues to make our country great, but companies like Infosys are a blight on our society with no redeeming value I can see.

Misdirection

[gatkinso]

When they "discover" that they cannot hire/lure 2000 tech workers in/to Indiana, they will make the claim the indeed there is a tech labor shortage in the US.