[Abishek_Muthian]

> There are 100,000 software developers in the DoD. We are the largest software organization on the planet,

Tata Consultancy Services, India employs more than 500,000 people. They manage the IT stack of companies from Walgreens to Ferrari. I'm not the person to nitpick, But I'm particularly proud of TCS's employment figures because I've personally witnessed many move from being poor to wealthy(by Indian standards) after being employed by them(often the first degree holder in the family).

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/15/economy/tcs-india-it-remo...

[Pokepokalypse]

I attended an interview with them once. (I think it was for one of their clients; American Express). It started in a large conference room, where I was one of about 200 other people. Weirdest interview ever, and also totally inappropriate for my skillset - due to the recruiter not giving a crap, apparently.

[Abishek_Muthian]

Yes, Head count > Quality in this type of companies. Don't expect FAANG level work here although they do handle projects from FAANG as well(B2B front-end type work).

Anyone with full-stack experience(gained outside office work, because IT workers in these companies are typically struck with single programming language/framework) would have already moved on from TCS, Infosys, CTS type companies to a well-funded startup.

Pandemic has increased the highly skilled IT job salaries exponentially in India, DevOps personnel with 8 years experience can earn (1.15Cr INR ~ 157K USD) in India[1].

[1] https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/in-the-wild-world-o...

[gaadd33]

Just to clarify, TCS seems to only have 500,000 people employed, the whole DOD has roughly 2.86 million as of 2018, of them 100,000 are software developers. I don't think that the entirety of TCS is made up of software developers.

[Abishek_Muthian]

Obviously entirety of 500,000 couldn't be SW developers, But definitely >100,000 are in IT and could be in U.S. alone.

>TCS Recognized as the #1 Top Employer in the United States for 2020[1]

>more than 327,000 employees were trained on multiple new technologies, and over 404,000 trained on Agile methods.

They recruit thousands every year from Engineering colleges in India specifically for SW role. Have been doing that for at least two decades. Their target for FY22 is 40,000 freshers.

It's late in India otherwise I could get the exact figures of IT employees in TCS as every Engineer here knows someone who is working in TCS be it Computer Science or Civil Engineer or even Bio Tech(All of them go to work in IT there).

[1] https://www.tcs.com/tcs-recognized-as-number-one-top-employe...

[2] https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/tcs-to-hire-40-000-f...