| Yes , it's the bean counting IT firms that have to share a large portion of the blame. Anyone who is good and asks for a higher salary is quietly moved out. In an IT services company it's all about the billing rate. A manager can always be billed at a higher rate than a lowly developer. So say you've been a developer for five years. Now the company can no longer "afford" to bill you as a developer. So they'll force you into management so that they can bill you as a manager. I've seen brilliant developers , who're still interested in writing code , but now all they do is fill excel sheets and status reports. And you'll be forced to manage multiple projects so that they can make even more money off of you. Otherwise you'll forever be stuck at a lower pay grade as a "mere" developer. IT services companies have a super low cost business model and they aren't interested in moving to the premium end of the market. The attrition in this sector is enormous. Just look into the figures for Infosys , TCS etc. It's reached upto 30% ! If 30 % leave in a year , it doesn't take long for all your experienced people to move out. But they've perfected this continuous conveyor of clueless graduates being cycled into the software meat grinder. They don't even hire CS grads. They'll hire almost anyone put them through their cookie cutter "training" and now you're ready to work on projects for the Fortune 500. Then there is the pervasive cheating and deception. Resumes are faked , they hire clueless developers straight out of college and make them work night and day to deliver their first project all the while assuring the client that they've put their best devs , with 3+ years of experience on the project. You're endlessly in maintenance projects which means you don't have much of a chance to learn and grow. So a lot of the "bad Indian coder" meme is due to the way that low cost IT services firms are structured and the people they hire. So very few people who take pride in coding can survive for very long in such an environment. If they're really good , they've already jumped ship to some top 10 product firm or startup. So you're very unlikely to find any good coders there , and the ones left will be doing management. |