A hiring manager expresses frustration with large Indian IT consultancies, specifically citing negative past experiences with Infosys regarding the quality of candidates provided.

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        "author": "winds_howling_2368",
        "excerpt": "Up your rate. Hire proper people with experience. I wouldn’t work for 320 inside and 3 days in office. I’m a senior engineer, and I’m currently 750 inside fully remote.\n\n You’re paying peanuts, using these crappy IT Indian sweatshops but you’re expecting quality? 😂",
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        "excerpt": "Cognizant, iGate, Infosys et al are all System Integrators. The will always send their least capable and wait and see if they get rejected. If not, great, the Client ends up training them up all the time the SI getting paid for it. It's laughable. Unless you reject the crap candidates they won't offer the competent ones.\n\n We had people offshore, incompetent, just out of UNI with no clue, imperson",
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        "excerpt": "My 2 cents.\n\n The minute I seen its an Indian consultancy or a recruitment agency I rejected it even before I hear the rate as I known it will be crappy rate.\n\n Not worth my time and effort. When they don't value experience and knowledge as a candidate with years of experience why should I give in to them.\n\n I am sure they will find other candidates for their choice of rate, just not me!",
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        "excerpt": "They just want a UK taxpayer at front of house. Ideally one with Indian heritage. Not my words. Something someone with Indian heritage told me & they only use you to evidence difficulty in filling a role.\nIf they cant fill the role, then they go the skills visa route & claim they tried to fill it.\nHonestly.. Our log it, flog it 1st line are paid more than £320 inside IR35.",
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        "excerpt": "Dealing with them is a humiliation ritual.. I had countless interviews and they never get back to me. They offer peanuts and then I counter offer a crazy amount. Then you actually see what the real budget is. So lets say they offer £250, you say £600 minimum and they come back with £480 or £500 something...\n\n Funny enough even the roles are completely messed up. I had an interview for a Technical",
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      "[post] How does everyone navigate using the Indian big 5/6?",
      "[post] Mandated to use Hotel Charlie Lima (although I’m throwing Inf*sys under the bus too for previous form).",
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