[icy]

It’s bit of both. The newer companies (startups mostly) are quite like US/EU companies—if not better in some cases. Excellent pay, great benefits etc.

The older, more established “MNCs” (think Adobe, AMD, Intel, Goldman Sachs) are slightly more rigid but not too bad.

The worst offenders are the services companies—Accenture, Infosys, TCS, the likes. They’re the sweatshops: terrible working hours, terrible culture (or lack thereof), shit pay.

But yes, as another commenter says, there are exceptions to everything.

[fellellor]

Calling TCS a sweatshop is pretty crazy. There are office politics you will run into if you are a high performer, or even working hard to rise through the ranks. Other than that it's a pretty chill place. Your mind will eventually rot with no relevant work experience though. So definitely not 996, but not a great place either.

Anyway the amount of generalisation in both the question and your quite incorrect answer is pretty funny.