Callput wrote:
And majority of CS IT staff are from India and out of them a significant number are from Pune, thats because if you remember couple of years ago, they moved people from Pune to Singapore due to lack of quality and high attrition in Pune and now they are doing the reverse, apparently now quality takes a back seat
Mind you the move seems very sensible to many Indians because although salary becomes 50%, its their hometown so they dont pay absurd amounts on rents and do note that most of those Indians are on vendor payrolls here so they are making in the range of what 5k-6k a month? They will do better in pune with half that salary thats for sure.
Unfortunately, CS moved lack of quality from Pune to SG together with those Indians.

So what's the point keeping them here? Fortunately, I'm from front office and most of our team are already in Pune, so we are reasonably safe in SG.
Other thing, its not correct to think that CS had a lot of IT in Pune. Even now there are only abt 200 ppl in Pune office, but they are rapidly expanding of course... More people in CS Mumbai though.
Btw, majority in CS are not from Pune, but from some village somewhere in between Pune and Mumbai with 1 toilet per 10 square kilometers. They consider SGD 6K/month as extreme happiness to strive towards for a decade.
Vendor payrolls - I never saw any opening of permanent position in CS IT SG for the last 2 years - only a couple for AVP and VP. Other folk are all sitting on vendor payroll - Americans, Swedish etc (95% are Indians anyway).