A trainee at Infosys Mysore DC committed suicide on Wednesday, 14th April 2009.
The reasons quoted for the suicide is reportedly failing in 3 modules of generic training which brought him to the edge of being ousted from the company.
It is for the second time in the last 6 months that a trainee at Infosys Mysore has taken the dreadful step. The first incident occurred in the first week of October. While the reason for the earlier suicide remains unknown, the reason in this one clearly seems to be fear of losing the job.
It is apparent that as in the previous suicide case, in this case too Infosys deliberately tried to suppress the news.
Reportedly, Infosys has toughened rules for training and have made the tests more difficult which leads to a higher number of trainees having to leave the company before being confirmed employees of the company. This means that the actual layoff number of 2100 reported by Infosys is much higher if you consider the rate at which trainees are made to leave due to recession.
One more important thing to note is that on one hand, Infosys says that it will honour the 18000 campus offers made for the graduates passing out in 2009 to put up a good face in the public eye but on the other hand, it makes sure that only the required number of employees stay at the end of training.
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April 18, 2009 7:33 PM
Dear Sir,
In the name of skill if Infosys kills asizeable amount of trainee Engineers , authority should be punished immediately by the Govt. of INDIA.
Any Company private or public sector undertaking have no right to kill and/or force to leave a concern after prolonged aptitude tests , personal interview along with specified simple percentage calculations.
If so then your management is a worthless category, those who are sitting over there to judge a student , whether he or she is capable to cope up your trining course. And for that particular reason the only COMPANY , I think in the world is forced to kill herself or himself, and/or forced to leave the CONCERN, isobviously PUNISHABLE offence in the eye of law and Govt. of INDIA , MINISTRY of H.R. should take immediate action against the AUTHORITY, so that no further incidence happend in future.
After offering letters to join INFOSYS Tech Ltd. no one should be axed by any meanse.
Hon'ble Mr. NARAYAN MURTHY should look after the matter and take action against the shameful incidence.
Yours truly,
XYZ
April 18, 2009 9:56 PM
@Bimal...
Infosys does not kill anyone... About 50 people every year commit suicide at IITs so does that mean that IITs should be closed??
There would have been some steps taken if the boy who committed suicide blamed the infosys training for it. But in his suicide note, he clearly mentioned that noone except himself is responsible for it. So if he did not blame the company, we too cannot.
April 23, 2009 12:42 PM
chintan ur absolutely correct so many people are being trained in infy but only a minute percentage are taking tis step. so it is not the company responsibility......
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April 27, 2009 1:46 PM
Ahem! new news.. Following the death of the employee, infy has now enforced new regulations..gec's will close at midnight sharp on weekdays and at 10 pm on weekends. How this is supposed to help im not sure. Because people now have lesser time than ever to prepare for the exams. They re in class til 6 15 pm. And now they cant afford to go their rooms and rest for a while since labs close at 12
April 28, 2009 10:37 PM
@lkensin...
That rule is just another cost cutting measure and it is not "Following the death of the employee"..
This wont help ofcourse.. But you cant beat them at coming up with stupid cost cutting measures like these... Dear Mr. CEO said in a speech for our batch that "investments in training will not have any effect due to recession.. " But you can forget that he ever said anything like that.
May 2, 2009 12:45 PM
This suicide happened just 4 floors above my room! :D:D
May 2, 2009 3:20 PM
@Cijo...
hmmm .. that was close. :D..
In the previous case i had a friend who knew that girl. Rooms were 37/108 and 110.
June 9, 2009 7:40 PM
Its a choice of an individual. No one can be blamed, but yes Infosys can be a tad more lenient cos its become a well known fact that infosys training is too too tough.
December 14, 2009 6:56 PM
are all the candidates selected for training sent to mysore campus or somewhere else?
December 14, 2009 6:59 PM
are the tests conducted for trainees @ infi subjective or objective?
December 14, 2009 7:04 PM
what is the duration of training for IT guys?
December 15, 2009 10:43 AM
@Prateek...
Yes, everyone is sent to mysore now as there is enough capacity now. If you get SAP as your stream, you may be moved to hyderabad.
All tests are objective and may include hands on exam.
Training duration is between 6-8 months for all.