{"id":806,"date":"2007-06-08T22:49:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/06\/08\/an-unbiased-comparison-btwn-tcs-n-infy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T09:40:31","slug":"an-unbiased-comparison-btwn-tcs-n-infy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/06\/08\/an-unbiased-comparison-btwn-tcs-n-infy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unbiased Comparison btwn TCS n Infy"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE(20 Mar 2010) – Below comparison is based on someone’s PERCEPTION, its not final or true words.. Its about you, how well you received acknowledgement in either of the big MNC. As per me, TCS is really good to work with. So just ENJOY the article ..<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
\nExperience Certainty.
\n“This is something that our clients already know; now we are letting the Cat
\nout of the Bag”
\nVision: “To be Global Top 10 by 2010”<\/p>\n

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD
\nWin the Flat World.
\n“The competition has been leveled, the world is flat”<\/p>\n

These are the two leading Indian IT companies that are set to lead the IT
\nworld globally. Both are basically “Computer Services Companies” even though
\nthey have their own Products like “Infy Finacle” and “TCS Quartz”.<\/p>\n

Even though they compete in the same area,
\nEven though they have many common clients,
\nEven though they do a lot of similar work,
\nthese two are totally different in the way they work, their policies, the
\nway they see the clients\/employees, the way they handle projects.<\/p>\n

TCS is a 39 year old $4 billion company compared to Infosys which is 25 year
\nold $3 billion company. Let’s compare from two perspectives:
\n1) Customer
\n2) Employee<\/p>\n

1) Customer
\nAs a Customer to these two companies, you won’t find much differences. Both
\ndeliver things on time, both deliver code of same quality etc.
\nBut TCS may be a bit cheaper than Infosys, but latter may guarantee more
\nquality
\nfor that price.<\/p>\n

2) Employee
\nAs an Employee, one can see a lot of differences.<\/p>\n

1) Work Pressure
\nThis is the first and foremost thing an employee looks for. Here obviously
\nTCS scores. You will rarely see people slogging in TCS whereas there is no
\nInfy without Slogging. Of course this difference to certain extent comes
\nfrom some extra quality things that are done at Infy, but still TCS do not
\nmind saying “No” when it’s difficult. Infy manager rarely has the world “No”
\nin their dictionary.<\/p>\n

Note: No matter what facilities a company provides, if the workload is high,
\nyour life will be miserable.<\/p>\n

2) Remuneration
\nInfy have a well defined compensation policy. They have increments every
\nyear and everything follows proper process. At the end, TCS guy too have the
\nsame salary, but there are no processes as such.
\nOne good thing about TCS is their Variable pay is less compared to infy
\ni.e. TCS gives what they promises but Infy may not.<\/p>\n

Infosys is a company that loves to make Employees pay tax.
\nIn a way, Infy is more patriotic.
\nTCS is more practical and loves to be in the side of employees.<\/p>\n

3) Infrastructure
\nWell, this point, don’t even think of comparing. They are miles apart.
\nInfosys has world class facilities which only a few companies can boast of.
\nTCS infrastructure is pathetic say even it is Buildings, Computers,
\nInternet, Transport or Food courts. Computers @ TCS are generations behind.<\/p>\n

4) Security
\n“Too much security” is an apt phrase for TCS. It is good from customer point
\nof view, but very very bad from an Employee point of view. You need to get
\nlot of permissions to login to a system and need a lot of access to make it
\nworking. Half your life will go in TCS raising tickets or you will become
\ntoo lazy that you will stop using some of the facilities instead of raising
\ntickets. Life is so much better at Infy where things are “Hare paced’ not
\n“Tortoise paced” like TCS processes.<\/p>\n

5) Work Culture
\nInfy has a lot of team building activities, cultural programs etc from the
\nHR side where as a TCS guy will see an HR only when he is in bench.
\nBut sometimes the Infy activities end up creating a lot of pressure which
\nfinally ends up in dissatisfaction which was actually intented Employee
\nsatisfaction. But Infy do score here.<\/p>\n

6) Ethics
\nInfy is really a company with a conscience. It is very transparent and
\nmanages things in a beautiful way. It is indeed the “BEST MANAGED COMPANY”.
\nTCS has to go a long way in this to achieve this level of Transparency even
\nthough they are trying.<\/p>\n

7) Initiatives
\nThere are a lot of initiatives that happens in Infy like for example “The
\nOzone initiative”. It aims at reducing the paper usage. Infy will never use
\npaper unless it’s very necessary. “Online” rules Infy.<\/p>\n

In TCS, one can see paper paper every where. Even for a survey, they don’t
\nhave a proper “Survey” tool, which in turn leads them to the Manual paper
\nsurvey which not only leads to inefficiency but also it wastes lot of paper,
\nwhich in turn wood, which in turn trees, which in turns harms the Nature.<\/p>\n

Btw, sometimes i do prefer certain things in Paper.<\/p>\n

Then there are very active Bulletin Boards, Writer’s Forums etc in Infy
\nwhich you will never find in any another company.<\/p>\n

8) Brand Name
\nInfy shows the ordinary things as Extra ordinary. That is their way of
\nBranding while TCS was not bothered about branding till now as they had a
\nstrong Backbone from “TATA”. Now they have realized the importance of
\nbranding and they have started a good campaign for better branding.<\/p>\n

9) Code Quality Vs Documentation
\nCode Quality is the keyword of TCS while Infy will bore people with the word
\n“Documentation”. Even though the word “Documentation” is boring, it is very
\nimportant in the long run.<\/p>\n

10) Average Age
\nAverage age of employees in Infy is much less than that of TCS. TCS runs
\nmainly with Experienced people where as Infy is a “Fresher” driven company
\nmaking it more like college.<\/p>\n

11) Processes
\nToo many Processes spoil the Code. This happens only in Infy.<\/p>\n

Each company has its Prons and Cons. It’s the Employee who should decide
\nwhat they want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE(20 Mar 2010) – Below comparison is based on someone’s PERCEPTION, its not final or true words.. Its about you, how well you received acknowledgement in either of the big MNC. As per me, TCS is really good to work with. So just ENJOY the article .. TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Experience Certainty. “This is something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166,16],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forwards","tag-forwards","tag-tcs-competitor-it-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}