It took about 2 months to get a new job. Mainly because I got the axe in December, and there is not a whole lot of hiring going on until January, and I had to spend 2 weeks in China to adopt my daughter. Oh, did I mention that I was in a layoff round of one and it was a couple of weeks after I mentioned to the CIO that I was adopting. They also refused to pony up the adoption benefit in the severence package, so they saved a couple of thousand dollars there and blew hundreds of thousands to replace me, but that is on a separate budget.
I am at a better company now, but it raised a lot of havoc with the adoption.
The extra skills didn't help me any. My old company ended up hiring so many offshore people that it costs them 6 times what my salary was to replace me! But the CIO had his agenda of hopping on the latest management fad.
I spent a few years working with WIPRO people (until a few months ago), and they truly suck! They never follow procedures, always blame others for their mistakes, doctor log files to cover their mistakes, and come in with an attitude that the in-house people know nothing.
Internal Auditing reported that projects cost 2 to 3 times more, are always late, and the work is incredibly shoddy. In terms of numbers, every American that got canned was replaced by 5 Wipro people, who only cost the company half as much per body.
The in-house people who are from India really hate them because it reflects poorly on them.
When my former CIO gave me the axe (I was a layoff round of one), they had to hire so many Indians that it now costs them 3 times more than what I had cost them in wages and benefits.
What a moron.
How about the CEO/CIO who looses mega bucks on outsourcing. Where I used to work, they replaced 100 American progammers with 500 people in Bangalore. Each person in Bangalore costs that company $70K/yr, which means that they replaced each American with $100K salary (double for benefits to $200K) with 5 Bangaloreans which now cost them $350K/year, and the work done is very shoddy.
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It took about 2 months to get a new job. Mainly because I got the axe in December, and there is not a whole lot of hiring going on until January, and I had to spend 2 weeks in China to adopt my daughter. Oh, did I mention that I was in a layoff round of one and it was a couple of weeks after I mentioned to the CIO that I was adopting. They also refused to pony up the adoption benefit in the severence package, so they saved a couple of thousand dollars there and blew hundreds of thousands to replace me, but that is on a separate budget. I am at a better company now, but it raised a lot of havoc with the adoption.
The extra skills didn't help me any. My old company ended up hiring so many offshore people that it costs them 6 times what my salary was to replace me! But the CIO had his agenda of hopping on the latest management fad.
I spent a few years working with WIPRO people (until a few months ago), and they truly suck! They never follow procedures, always blame others for their mistakes, doctor log files to cover their mistakes, and come in with an attitude that the in-house people know nothing. Internal Auditing reported that projects cost 2 to 3 times more, are always late, and the work is incredibly shoddy. In terms of numbers, every American that got canned was replaced by 5 Wipro people, who only cost the company half as much per body. The in-house people who are from India really hate them because it reflects poorly on them.
When my former CIO gave me the axe (I was a layoff round of one), they had to hire so many Indians that it now costs them 3 times more than what I had cost them in wages and benefits. What a moron.
How about the CEO/CIO who looses mega bucks on outsourcing. Where I used to work, they replaced 100 American progammers with 500 people in Bangalore. Each person in Bangalore costs that company $70K/yr, which means that they replaced each American with $100K salary (double for benefits to $200K) with 5 Bangaloreans which now cost them $350K/year, and the work done is very shoddy.