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Infosys iRace makes employees say “I Quit”

Infosys has seen extremely high attrition over the last 3 months and most employees attribute it to the new HR initiative (I think Finance had more say here).There were reports that Infosys lost 4000 employees in the month of February alone accounting for 3% of its total strength. It appears Infosys has frozen all the exit interviews of employees resigning till the end of the March 2010 (H2), this appears as a move to show more acceptable attrition rate to the media and markets ahead of the annual results. Nandita Gurjar has been taking a lot of flak from infy employees in the media comments section.

During recession Infosys like TCS,Wipro and many others increased the working hours from 8 hours to 9 hours and froze the hikes and promotion for two years. Now after iRace many employees have been demoted as they dont fit the expected criteria and their salary has gone down as well. Typically when a company starts reducing salaries even while showing profit growth it makes you wonder when will the normalcy return for these companies. Infosys while projecting a profit growth story to markets, it is doing exactly the opposite towards its employees.

By discouraging long serving employees, the likes of Infosys and TCS are encouraging a vicious cycle in the IT industry in terms of attrition and forced hikes by laterals, in spite of the fact that the cost for the companies will be much lower to retain employees rather hire at a higher price.

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Modified Curve Fitting in TCS for H2 appraisal (2010)

The post title has been modified after many have raised issues that band D % is not increased this time around.

Here is the new breakup as suggested by commenters :

A 10%, B 32%, C 43% , D&E – 15%

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Tata Consultancy Services will be announcing its annual hikes next month, but not everyone will rejoice the news, TCS generally tries to keep its overall employee costs same and predictable irrespective of the performance of the company. TCS has been under tremendous pressure due to increasing attrition rate over the past 3-4 months, unlike anytime TCS senior management have spoken about proposed hikes from last quarter just to hold on to the employees planning to quit.

Typically TCS fixes the share of each bands every year typically following is the Division (very sure abt B and C)

A – 5% B – 30% C – 40% D -20% E -5%
A – 10% B – 30% C – 40% D -19% E -1%

The above are normal scenarios but these values are kept as confidential and never shown outside, but this year the management seems to focused on making sure the band D is increased, several project GL’s have been conducting sessions explaining how Band D is not that bad.

And the hike is expected to be in range of 7-15% (highest in higher levels of management). Most employees will see a hike of around 10% max.

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IIS7.0 with End to End Extensibility – A brief oveview

All people who deal with microsoft technologies today are sure to know about the terms like WCF,WPF,Silverlight,Windows Azure etc.But the basic requirement to develop applications on all the above technologies is only the IIS.People today donot concentrate much on the features of IIS and most of them still work on only the older version but develop applications on WCF and Silverlight.So,I am here to ellaborate the features available in the latest version of IIS so that the development and performance tuning of the applications would become much easier.

This version of IIS has many addition and removal of features when compared to previous versions.Request processing architecture itself varies,and the main component “ISAPI.dll” to process the reuqest is missing in the latest version.So who does the job now?

A new C++ module API is introduced with enhancement to support all the new IIS7.0 features and it is said that it is also simple to program.New IIS eliminates the duplication in IIS as well as in ASPP.NET and hence performance of the application is expected to be much higher.

A short description on the working flow when a client request reaches the webserver is given below :
When the IIS receives the request then a component called HHTP.SYS will process the request first.It contacts Windows Activation service(WAS) to obtain further information.WAS inturn gathers the configuration information about application pool and site configuration.World Wide Web (WWW) uses the configuration information to configure HTTP.sys.WAS starts the worker process and the worker process inturn will process the request and returns the response back to HTTP.sys.Now the client machine receives the response.

Another important difference in the architecture is that iis7.0 has introduced “WebServer Engine”  in which we can add more component and modules depending upon the requirements.

Further details can be obtained from the msdn link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/magazine/cc164241(en-us).aspx