tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34144029153431598022024-03-19T17:03:01.337+05:30Current IT MarketIT Jobs India, Tech software IT layoffs in India, US. Wipro Congnizant, CTS, CSC, Keane, Infotech, Adobe, TCS, Infosys, HCL, Tech Mahindra, Satyam, Patni, iGate, Syntel, Outsourcing, H1b News.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2531125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-19268542575350351832014-08-04T11:53:00.000+05:302014-08-04T11:53:07.485+05:30Google most attractive employer among Asia-Pacific graduates
Internet giant Google is the most attractive employer for graduates from the Asia-Pacific region in a list of top companies which figures no Indian company.
According to global employer branding firm Universum's 2014 Most Attractive Employers in Asia-Pacific Ranking, Google has emerged as the most desirable employer among business, as well as engineering and IT students in the APAC region.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-78651594677676623872014-08-04T11:52:00.000+05:302014-08-04T11:52:03.590+05:30IT professionals may get double-digit hike this year
Riding on the back of better operational performance, tech companies are likely to dole out higher wage increases for employees in the current year. After an average 8-10% hikes last year, the IT staff can expect a double-digit increase in emoluments this year, industry body Nasscom said on Wednesday.
The assessment, based on an internal survey of Nasscom members, indicates that attrition Unknownnoreply@blogger.com387tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-4320627323018747202014-08-04T11:50:00.002+05:302014-08-04T11:50:15.992+05:30Heads rolling at Beats as Apple eliminating redundant positions, Ian Rogers & Trent Reznor to stay on
As Apple’s acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music nears completion this financial quarter, the Cupertino and Culver City, California-based companies have begun work on transitioning select employees and technology resources from Beats to Apple, according to sources briefed on the transition. Apple executives have visited Beats’ Southern California headquarters this week and last week Unknownnoreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-23427705744027102562014-08-04T11:46:00.002+05:302014-08-04T11:46:47.613+05:302014 July Job Cut Report: 46,887 Job Cuts Announced Boosted by Microsoft
The unexpectedly large layoffs announced by Microsoft helped push July job cuts to the second highest level of the year. In all, U.S.-based employers reported plans to reduce payrolls by 46,887 during the month, according to the report released Thursday by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.
The July total was up 49 percent from June’s 31,434 job cuts, which Unknownnoreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-57264905064255842732014-08-04T11:41:00.004+05:302014-08-04T11:41:56.873+05:30Microsoft layoffs hit D.C. office
Microsoft’s massive layoffs have hit the company’s Washington policy office.
Five policy and government relations staffers were let go in a restructuring process that hit both Microsoft and its subsidiary Nokia.
Read more at Politico
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com269tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-22253153515553499302014-08-04T11:39:00.001+05:302014-08-04T11:39:21.442+05:30Broadcom winds down baseband unit, cuts 2,500 jobs
Broadcom on Tuesday said it is winding down its money-losing cellular baseband chip business and cutting one-fifth of its total workforce, instead of selling the unit.
Chief executive Scott McGregor told analysts on a conference call that after Broadcom said in early June it would exit baseband and then tested the market for a possible sale, the company decided to shut it down.
Source: Times ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-87336592244319476862013-11-06T13:16:00.002+05:302013-11-06T13:16:47.873+05:30Top global IT firms have more staff in India than home nations
It's a measure of India's strength in software services and the number of engineers it produces that some of the world's largest IT companies have more employees in India now than in their home countries.
And increasingly, these foreign companies are shifting their consulting base to India, thanks to the talent coming out of the country's business schools.
IBM, the biggest in the business, hasUnknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-12115544077259968592013-11-06T13:10:00.000+05:302013-11-06T13:18:02.362+05:30Panasonic to cut chip division workforce by half: Reports
Panasonic is set to cut its chip division workforce in half, axing thousands of jobs as the electronics giant overhauls its battered balance sheet after record losses, Japanese media reports said.
The plan to shrink Panasonic's money-losing semiconductor business could also see it sell off some chip manufacturing plants, the leading Nikkei business daily said, without citing sources.
PanasonicUnknownnoreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-20738605821368992002013-11-05T13:09:00.002+05:302013-11-06T06:47:23.936+05:3010 Most Difficult Tech Firms For Interviews
Interviews can be hard for anyone, but several companies tend to make the interview process difficult in order to separate the wheat from the chaff. Technology companies are particularly notorious for making the interviews tough, posing difficult questions to assess how applicants fare on various criteria.
Professional networking website Glassdoor has released the list of companies with the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-66298682515158742172013-11-05T13:00:00.002+05:302013-11-05T13:00:43.141+05:308 hottest IT skills for 2014
Wonder what are the most-sought after IT skills for 2014. ComputerWorld's annual IT skills survey uncovers the skill-sets that IT managers will be looking for in 2014. From 'Networking' to 'Project management', here is a list of the hottest skills that will work in your favour in 2014.
1. Programming/application development
Topping the ComputerWorld's hottest skills for 2014 list is 'Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-41269518743079177122013-11-05T12:54:00.003+05:302013-11-05T12:54:40.714+05:30US says Infosys blatantly flouted immigration laws
Federal prosecutors have alleged that IT major Infosys indulged in blatant violation of immigration laws by not only bringing its employee inside the country on a visa which does not permit work, but also issuing specific directions to its workers to mislead the immigration officials on their point of entry on their nature of work.
"To circumvent the requirements, limitations, and governmental Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-92046043092933540742013-11-05T12:52:00.002+05:302013-11-05T12:52:54.007+05:30Yahoo laying off 500 under-performing employees: Report
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has begun firing as many as 500 under-performing employees, All Things D's Kara Swisher reports. After joining the company in July 2012, Mayer instituted new employee performance reviews one year ago.
Now, Swisher reports, Mayer is planning to let go any employees who were rated "misses" or "occasionally misses" at least twice during the past five quarters.
Swisher saysUnknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-64354323309992540012013-11-05T12:50:00.003+05:302013-11-05T12:51:04.447+05:30India's Best Small & Startup IT Companies To Work For
Bonus, travel allowances, sales commission, incentives all were the talk of the town in job market. Today, the game has completely changed and focus has shifted from monetary view point to complete engagement of the employees in the development of organization and themselves. Workplace recognition and revenue growth are not coincidental and is a reflection of one's belief that treating employeesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-83938552733138267422013-10-27T07:16:00.003+05:302013-10-27T07:16:54.438+05:30Infosys inducts 12 executives into management team
In perhaps the biggest ever expansion of its leadership team, Infosys has inducted 12 new faces to the executive council (EC). This takes the total strength of its highest decision-making body to 30. With this, the EC's strength has almost doubled since the end of 2012-13, when it had 16 members. In comparison, rival Wipro has 23 members in its management team. As EC members, the new Infosys Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-23240456408169745312013-10-27T07:15:00.003+05:302013-10-27T07:15:48.814+05:30Wipro to train over 100 foreign interns in India
As the spotlight remains fixed on the issue of onsite hiring for IT firms, Wipro is planning ahead in cultivating teams of local business leaders with an Indian ethos. The company is scaling up its "India gateway" programme, through which it gives campus recruits from the UK, Europe, and Africa an opportunity to spend months at a time in its India campuses.
Launched last year, Wipro says the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-8404327703876327612013-08-24T05:19:00.001+05:302013-08-24T05:19:11.042+05:30Educomp starts cost optimisation; cuts 3,500 jobs
Education solutions provider Educomp Solutions today said it has cut 3,500 jobs in the last three months and has also initiated measures to spur growth.
"Educomp has announced a slew of measures aimed at putting the company back on a growth trajectory at a time when market sentiment is adversely impacting bottom lines across industry and has pushed the education sector into negative growth Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-84195389250921676272013-08-24T04:56:00.000+05:302013-08-24T04:56:12.739+05:30US tech giants face uncertain future
Outsiders often think of Silicon Valley as a constantly changing landscape, a place where fortunes rise and fall with the next great idea. Now some of the technology industry's biggest names are finding out that once you fall behind, it is pretty hard to catch up.
Hewlett-Packard announced several significant personnel changes, along with sharply lower revenue and narrower operating Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-17014260921238237842013-08-24T04:50:00.001+05:302013-08-24T04:50:10.727+05:30Corporates cutting jobs to to save costs: Study
Faced with a tough economic scenario, corporates are cutting jobs and rationalising manpower to save on costs and the situation is likely to get worse in coming days, according to an Assocham study.
"Alongwith the increasing number of corporates rushing to banks for debt restructuring, scores of them are also being forced to go in for manpower rationalising, reducing the headcount to saveUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-42834143562445942802013-08-24T04:48:00.002+05:302013-08-24T04:48:10.274+05:30Adaequare plans to hire 150 professionals by March end
Data engineering and analytics solutions provider Adaequare plans to hire 150 professionals by end of this fiscal.
The Hyderabad-based company is also looking to acquire small-sized companies with niche tools to drive growth.
"Adaequare is looking at a good mix of organic and inorganic growth to continue staying ahead of the curve in the Data Engineering and Analytics space. We Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-70628313462898025572013-08-24T04:45:00.003+05:302013-08-24T04:45:40.720+05:30Indians third largest immigrant group in US: Study
Indians have emerged as the third-largest immigrant group in the US behind Mexicans and Chinese, with nearly 1.9 million of them living in the country, a new study by an American thinktank has said.
Indian population in the US has grown to over 150 times its size since 1960, when the slightly more than 12,000 Indian immigrants represented less than 0.5 per cent of the total immigrant Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-4454278592580386702013-08-24T04:43:00.001+05:302013-08-24T04:43:07.519+05:30Dell may lay off 1,000 employees in Mohali
About 1,000 employees of American multinational Dell may lose their jobs in India over the next six months as the Texas-based computer hardware, software and services provider plans a significant rightsizing exercise for its international services business here, according to sources with knowledge of the development.
Sources say the company is planning to shut down its international services Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-60393563786281819372013-07-17T11:52:00.000+05:302013-07-17T11:52:00.784+05:30Tata Technologies inks MoU with BITS Pilani
Tata Technologies inked an agreement with Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, to design and implement specialised educational programmes for skill development of engineering professionals, students and faculty.
Tata Technologies would support the existing Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) industry interface programmes, while the latter would run specialised Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-80946780402416323972013-07-17T11:51:00.000+05:302013-07-17T11:51:00.242+05:30LinkedIn study reveals why people hate their jobs
More or less everyone has a grudge or two against their job. LinkedIn has brought out some reasons as to why employees may be hating their job, the Huffington Post reported. A recent study by Dale Carnegie Training showed that nearly 75% of workers are not fully engaged at their jobs.
One of the major reasons is that an employee's friends are having an amazing experience at another company, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-21031686197236448632013-07-17T11:49:00.000+05:302013-07-17T11:49:00.439+05:30Indian techies bag first prize at Microsoft competition
Software giant Microsoft today said it has awarded India's Y-Nots the first prize in the Windows Azure Challenge at the 11th annual Microsoft Imagine Cup.
Imagine Cup is a competition for student technologists to create innovative projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market.
The winners were announced at the Imagine Cup Awards ceremony in St Petersburg, which was attended by over 800 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414402915343159802.post-81950173000871824262013-07-16T11:47:00.001+05:302013-07-16T11:47:10.458+05:30India's 5 Best Tech Companies To Work For
A hefty paycheck and huge employee compensation won’t necessarily define the ‘desirability’ of a company in India’s star-studded IT sector. Being one of the most sought after fields by grads, these companies always hold something special to retain talents. From amazing work culture to perks, let’s check out what makes these 5 IT companies the best places to work for in India based on a survey byUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4