Friday, May 12, 2006

Interns

Well, I saw this news item that Infosys will recruit interns as a part of its prestigious inStep program.

Interns would be recruited from technology and business schools including Said Business School, University of Oxford and London Business School, UK, Mannhelm University, Germany, Ecole Polytechnique, France, and St Gailen, Switzerland, an Infosys release said

Is there anything very special abt the inStep program ?

Interns will have the opportunity to work at Infosys Headquarters in Bangalore, on high quality, high visibility projects for eight to 24 weeks, it said.

I guess many of us who have worked at/working for Infy do the same thing. By high quality == CMM level 5 or higher. High Visibility == You can be seen by everybody on the plush Infy campuses and be recognized as an Infy Intern.The best part will be staying at 5* hotels and going around in golf cars.

But,am I missing something here ? Why is the inStep program so high-profile , that it gets coverage in Economic times and all that?

Link :- Infy to recruit 30 interns

The point is :- All the software companies who are big gasmasters have inflated "Brand India" to something very high and unrealistic. This seems so superficial.

2 comments:

Hansolo said...

Bro,

While in my B-school days I had applied for the In-step program. Fortunately/unfortunately for me an exchange student I know form St Gallen got offered the internship. His experience - They pay you a lot of money, the place you stay at is great, the project was kinda over rated, the roads in blr was pathetic and they seem to want you to put a lot of you in their newsletters and website. So yeah you got your description right about the program.

Cheers

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