Posted on June 18, 2006  Comments (2)

Lessons from India’s Success in IT Industry

The numbers of new hires is amazing (update – see comments, in fact the numbers are not for Infosys. According to Bloomberg:

and various sources quote a number of 25,000 for new hires at Infosys – almost 50% of their current size. I would imagine some will replace those leaving, though that is not clear from the articles.)

The 14 month training course seems to indicate that Infosys needs to supplement their education to meet the needs to Infosys.

I wonder what they mean by “brilliant students” (I doubt they mean all students so it must be some subset but I am not sure what subset – for example engineering or electrical engineering or engineering from the top 20 Indian schools or what, top 20% of engineers from each school?). Still is does provide another example that India is producing many very talented engineers – Microsoft, Google etc. would only be hiring if they found very talented people.

Government regulation and enforcement are significant components of the success of science and engineering efforts. Education is an important factor but the rule of law and effective regulation play an important role also.