IT Jobs for Brit wanting to move to India

daveuk

Hi

I am a mid-thirties British IT consultant with a degree in Computer Science, and 15 years experience of working for major corporates and as an independent consultant. I would love to get a job in India, having visited 7 times, but don't really know where to start. Any advice or pointers would be appreciated. At this stage I don't particularly care where the work is.

Cheers

Dave

crvlvr

dave uk,

jobs.net lists about 90 IT related jobs in India. good luck! Or you can try the larger software company wesbites:

Infosys
Wipro
Tata Consulting

In addition, most major Tech copanies like IBM, Motorola, Intel, Texan Instruments, have development centers in India.

good luck

pooch

Dave scour the net for companies in the south chiefly and apply, many small companies are always looking out for people with IT skills since they are always expanding or at least trying to, even if their expansion aims don't succeed you would have at least ended up with a 2 yr contract. It would be worthwhile posting your resume to call centres too since many of them venture into IT consulting too or were indeed IT companies that have ventured into the call centre biz.

Amit

Sounds like a good idea... try the indian job sites as well... for whatever they are worth...

www.naukri.com
the monster india site
and do have a look at the indian portals like indiatimes.com and rediff.com... you might get a few ideas...

Most indian IT and like someone said, even BPO firms might be happy with your CV... expat packages can also afford a very decent lifestyle here!!

Cheers and best of luck!

Amit

check volga's post in the expat area for Google jobs!!

Aryan

Foreign guy working with IT in India? Sorry to say this, but you're dreaming.

1. Why should they hire you when they can hire a local with the same expertise for 1/10 the price.

2. Indians are hard working people, have low expectations and do their job without question.

You can try your luck with a large international firm, but even then, job prospects are slim for non-Indians. You could always try working at a call centre if you're that desperate to stay in India.

magicaurel

i don t agree with you. i am going to work in india in IT, it is important for foreign countries to be able to communicate easily wtih the indians teams, and having engineer to do that is a good solution.

indians are working without asking anything, ok. but it's not always a good thing. in europe, engineers can ask if they find something not logical to do, and not simply do it because it s the specifications.

so, i think they are good opportunities for foreigners in india, in order to adapt with the foreign customers.

You are not dreaming, and you can find it. But your salary will probably not be as high than in great britain, but maybe higher than an indian, if you are in a big company.

Aryan

The euro presence in India is pretty small. The American presence is quite large and since Indians speak english, there is no problem for communication and Americans are quite pragmatic.

The euro's will never have much presence in India anyway, they are too slow and xenophobic to try and establish in India. In Ericsson they fired over 200 foreign people and left only one to manage their division and hire more Indians. Also, companies have a preference for NRI and PIO, since they understand the culture both ways. Also immigration authorities are getting tough on foreigners and work permits for them is harder to come by.

Indians do everything and are quite creative, difference is that they do not make high demands for luxury items like some people do, which is a plus.

kaushiks

I think we may have missed a point here.
If, as you guys say, he is planning to be paid more than Indians, then ofcourse he is crazy. It seems daveuk is ready to work for an Indian salary, since staying in India for a while is his objective.

First thing -
1) If you want to do software development and be a techie then,
a) There are few jobs in India for a guy with 15 years experience. You will be forced to go into man management .
However, if you try hard in some of the start ups you might get what you want.

2) If you are prepared to man management , meaning almost no use for techie skills, then you can find jobs.

First thing search the net and get some consultants. There are literally thousands in every city. All of them respectable and charge you nothing. The company that would eventually hire you pays them. You don't need to worry.

Almost every product company in the world has a centre in India.

You are british. May be you can try Mahindra British Telecom in Pune.
They are hiring.

sshekhar

I work as an entperise architect (J2EE consultant) here in Chicago. I have heard from a lot of my friends that large and small corporations (from US, Europe, and India) are looking for people like you (with good experience) to jumpstart things over in India. They do value western management style as well as work ethics. So there is plenty of challenging work (if thats what you're looking for). IBM is sending large amounts of work to their India offices. I would recommend IBM Global Consulting, if they have any openings there. Btw, this is all assuming you are a software consultant (particularly applications architect/developer).

shere

Euro's are xenophobic.....ha ha I can not stop laughing. Exact opposite actually.

Most call centre operations etc in India are real crap when it comes to service. Just try getting something done from the Dell employees at their Indian call centre. They dont understand anything and do not bother to respond to emails for months at a time. Compare this with the Irish Call centre for Dell and you will notice a big difference in service. Maybe it is down to training etc at Dell India. Many UK companies are now reluctant to set up call centres in India as companies who have set up there are losing customers left right and centre as people are fed up with badly trained staff who rather than solve problems, prolong them.

Aryan

Oh I beg to differ.

Euro's are euro-centric, do not trust non-european sources, arrogant about own beliefs and views over others etc. Incapable and reluctant to operate in a non-european environment. Laugh at Indians behind their back. Like yourself.

In contrast, American are straight foward and more pragmatic about doing busines in India. If they find something odd they express it openly and are honest about it. Europeans just keep quite until they are among their own.

The call centre business is doing quite well in India. Still is.

kaushiks

Every long thread has a breaking point when the discussion takes a sudden turn.

shere

Generally as a whole you cant beat Europeans at anything. When it comes to new inventions (proper inventions not bodged up LPG powered electric generators etc as they always show on Star news etc)), technology, design, engineering etc etc we rule. The US does not even come close to the Europeans. Americans will suck up to people big time and hide everything behind their smiles.

You think the americans dont laugh at indians behind their backs ?
You have obviously had a bad experience with a European. There are major attitude differences between euro nations. I have found that Dutch people I have met are too laid back, arrogant and rude to the point of racist but hey if they are that way then bo""acks to them, I am sure not all dutch people are like that so sorry for stereotyping.

Sorry to go off track but in November 2004 some fat ba$tard middle aged Indian male at IGIA Delhi had a go at me in English thinking I was backward and could not understand him (little did the ass know I probably have more letters after my name than he probably has in all his name ). After listening to an earful of shit from him I told him in the Queens best English where he could go and to self inseminate himself. Silly arse did not know what to say and I left me alone after that. See you get silly wise arses from all countries even India.

shere

Oh yes yes yes. Isn't it great when topics go way off the original discussion.

I suppose my story about the fat ba$tard middle aged indian man will do that.