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Wipro recruits Iraq veterans to fight protectionism

Bangalore: In an attempt to tackle growing protectionism in the US against outsourcing, IT firm Wipro is hiring Iraq war veterans as software engineers. The firm wants to be perceived as a job creator in the US at a time when that country’s unemployment rate hovers around 9%.

Wipro has been beefing up its onsite presence across the developed world in the past few quarters. The firm will open its second delivery centre in the US in the next six months and its first in Portugal.

CEO TK Kurien said the discipline that former US defence personnel bring to the company is an added attraction.

“We are very clearly going after ex-defence personnel. One of the things we have done in the US is to recruit veterans from the Iraq war,” Kurien told FE.

We train the soldiers before employing them as software engineers,” the CEO noted during an interaction with FE.

Kurien did not reveal the number of Iraq war veterans that the company has hired.

“There is the GI Bill in the US. When you go and fight a war, the government sponsors college education for soldiers. We give them offers as soon as they leave the army,” Kurien added.

The Bill originally provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans. Now, it also includes other benefit programmes to assist veterans of subsequent wars.

“We hire them as a matter of giving back to the society. Second, these guys come from the army. They have seen situations that have made them extremely disciplined,” Kurien said. Wipro’s efforts at employing ex-army veterans haven’t gone unnoticed. It was recently awarded a patriot’s award by the governor of Georgia.

“Jobs are becoming a big, fundamental issue in the US. And we are underestimating the impact it will have on our business. We have to be seen as job creators in the US. We will look to build the architecture and the programme management level in the country,” Kurien said.

Wipro said it is looking at starting a second delivery centre with at least 1,000 people in the US. “Without this number, it will not be viable. We have already filled up our Atlanta centre, with over 1,000 people. We are out of space there,” the CEO added. The firm is negotiating with various states and is yet to pick a location.

Kurien said the firm is now adequately protected for the year as far as the number of H-1B visas are concerned. “There is no point in increasing our H-1B visa applications since we plan to hire more onsite,” Kurien said.

Market analysts had, of late, warned that visa and regulatory troubles need some watching. CLSA recently said that an increasingly tough visa regime is worrying Indian companies. While procedural hurdles are manageable, select regulations being discussed are harmful for the longer-term competitiveness of the offshore IT industry, it said.


Wipro recruits Iraq vets to fight protectionism
 
These so called "software engineers" are as good as rubber stamps...Once cannot switch over from firing guns to writting code to fast but Indian degree / diploma mill can issue "Engineering" title to anyone they wish! After outsouring and Indian cheap labour has destroyed much of the quality in American IT industry, expect worst to come after this. I will not be surprised but my software starts randomly shooting slogans and bullet firing sounds at me while it crashes and then blames Saddam/Antrax/WMD for it..Worst yet, an AV software which says "Scanning for WMD on this system"!!
 
These so called "software engineers" are as good as rubber stamps...Once cannot switch over from firing guns to writting code to fast but Indian degree / diploma mill can issue "Engineering" title to anyone they wish! After outsouring and Indian cheap labour has destroyed much of the quality in American IT industry, expect worst to come after this. I will not be surprised but my software starts randomly shooting slogans and bullet firing sounds at me while it crashes and then blames Saddam/Antrax/WMD for it..Worst yet, an AV software which says "Scanning for WMD on this system"!!

You seem to be generalising a lot of things .. I guess if you leave aside some of your bias and understand business strategy, how capitalism works you will find a lot of sense into what drives the Indian Software Industry..
 
These so called "software engineers" are as good as rubber stamps...Once cannot switch over from firing guns to writting code to fast but Indian degree / diploma mill can issue "Engineering" title to anyone they wish! After outsouring and Indian cheap labour has destroyed much of the quality in American IT industry, expect worst to come after this. I will not be surprised but my software starts randomly shooting slogans and bullet firing sounds at me while it crashes and then blames Saddam/Antrax/WMD for it..Worst yet, an AV software which says "Scanning for WMD on this system"!!

These cheap labor s/w engineer Indians get H1 visas, then they work for the client they were working for through these consultancies and then they contribute to the US economy. I've to leave for a conference, else I would have replied properly but since you spit venom without knowing your facts, I'm going to paste something here. It is 2002-03 data but should serve the purpose with slight aberrations. Educated yourself before you open your mouth next time.

1. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems? Vinod Khosla.

2. Who is the creator of the Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)? Vinod Dham.

3. Who is the third richest muslim in the world? AZIM PREMJI

4. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)? Sabeer Bhatia.

5. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT &T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, and Unix to name a few)? Arun Netravalli.

6. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard? Rajiv Gupta.

7. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems? Sanjay Tejwrika.

8. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart? Vikram Pandit, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

9. Furthermore, the Consul General in New York, Mr. Pramathesh Rath has said that India (as of 2002) is the largest source of international students accounting for more than 11 percent or 67,000 of the over half-million studying in various universities in the U.S. In this case, Indian students for the first time outnumbered the hitherto largest source of international students, which was China.

10. Indian doctors, numbering more than 35,000, constitute over five percent of all physicians in America.

11. Indians constitute ten percent of all medical students in America.

12. Indians also own nearly 40% of all the small and mid-size hotels in the country.

13. Another point is that three-fourths of all graduates from the prestigious IIT university in India are in the U.S.

14. Let's not forget that it was such spiritual visionaries as Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Vivekananda, and others who first brought notice of the true glories of Indian Vedic philosophy to the American public, and helped change the public's view of spirituality, popularize the vegetarian diet and yoga, and make "Hare Krishna" a household word.

15. Go figure for yourself the no. of Indians working in Intel, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, NASA.

This is only the first generation of migrated Indians. There are two serving members in the US house/senate (not sure which one) - Bobby Jindal governor of Louisiana and Nikki Haley governor of SC. We're well integrated in this society. GOOD BYE!
 
These so called "software engineers" are as good as rubber stamps...Once cannot switch over from firing guns to writting code to fast but Indian degree / diploma mill can issue "Engineering" title to anyone they wish! After outsouring and Indian cheap labour has destroyed much of the quality in American IT industry, expect worst to come after this. I will not be surprised but my software starts randomly shooting slogans and bullet firing sounds at me while it crashes and then blames Saddam/Antrax/WMD for it..Worst yet, an AV software which says "Scanning for WMD on this system"!!
Woah... somebozo that is some rant.
Anyway, I have interacted with both ex Israeli army and ex US army engineers in software industry (proper US companies if it makes you any happy) and they are good.
 
These so called "software engineers" are as good as rubber stamps...Once cannot switch over from firing guns to writting code to fast but Indian degree / diploma mill can issue "Engineering" title to anyone they wish! After outsouring and Indian cheap labour has destroyed much of the quality in American IT industry, expect worst to come after this. I will not be surprised but my software starts randomly shooting slogans and bullet firing sounds at me while it crashes and then blames Saddam/Antrax/WMD for it..Worst yet, an AV software which says "Scanning for WMD on this system"!!

The software field is not like that at all. Any one with a technical background can be trained in languages like C++ , Core Java and assigned roles .

Loads of ex-servicemen retire from militaries around the world to take up diverse subjects mostly technical ones and business administrations so no anomaly at all .
 

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