What's the deal with Indian IT?

What's the deal with Indian IT? Why do I see so many frustrated souls around me every day? This problem of frustration among IT professionals is a universal problem, the Indian IT companies have become "coding factories" and their business model is based on nothing but wage arbitrage. Global majors such as the IBMs and the Accentures of the world have also adopted this model to nullify this low-cost advantage of the Indian vendors.

One of the major factors contributing to the frustration is poor resource management in these coding factories - they follow the Binary principle, either you will be overloaded with work or get no work at all. People who work too much work feel that they are not getting any time for personal life (and not getting paid enough) whereas the other bunch of people get frustrated because they are not adding any value to their CVs. Also, unfair HR practices such as higher salary for same work to people with similar profiles and mindless transfer of employees don't make things any better. As if that was not enough, these factories have started cost cutting initiatives where they cut costs where it hurts the employees the most (e.g Transportation) and at the same time continue to waste money in useless marketing propaganda.

If things don't improve, we might see the emergence of Employee Unions in the Industry soon and if that happens, the Indian IT Industry will never be the same again!

Let's wait and watch...

Cheers!