Reality of Work Pressure in Indian IT Industry | Work Life Balance | Career Talk With Anand

[@CareerTalk]

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[@doncorleone3901]

More meetings is the root of pressure. More meetings = more questions by the guy who only asks questions, so you keep preparing to provide answers rather than do actual work. Eliminate 90% of meetings and see stress levels going down. But then there are people whose only job is meetings so in order to keep their job they will ask for more meetings.

[@100goddubey]

Right

[@nishugarg8905]

also weekly report for client

[@rajagopalansridharan3363]

There will be 7 captains and 1 rower in a boat that is one of the reasons. Hope this example summarizes

[@JaywN0t37XGQQbwFjN]

Bro lots of your things are true, I like coding when I started but now this IT company is getting stressful for me. I always think that farming is the only job I can do 😫.

[@senthilkumar-ne3zt]

Certainly an eye opener content for younger generations who started their IT career recently. I personally realized this after decades of my IT career. I worked in major Indian IT giants and always worked 6 days per week though 5 days per week is the norm. Also average work hours were more than 12 hours. The real problem is, majority of the service based IT giants are competing each other with low bids and gets the project. Later to meet the profit targets, they are crushing resources like anything. Poor management and profit greediness are main culprits. People at higher management knows all these things and they intentionally promote this work culture just to grow high on their career. Though employee centric policies are there, it is just in paper and individual accounts can override all these policies. Due to financial commitments, many are adjusting a lot and burning out after some point of time in their life. That’s the bitter truth!

[@Nichaansama]

Wow perfectly summarized. This is really true and most of us working in this industry can attest to these harsh realities. MODERN DAY SLAVERY of 21st Century is what it is.

[@extremeweirdness1528]

I used to work for almost 10-14 hours a day last year now I only work 2 hours a day. What has changed? Definitely the work has been reduced but more than that the reason is because I identified all the ways to reduce the time taken remove dependencies from other people. Now I multitask and do my work in boring meetings. I have also grown way stronger technically. Less Bugs less redos etc. So in my opinion number one thing people should do to get WLB is identify ways to reduce time taken on the job.

[@gvskrishnasarma1898]

I usually work for 10 to 12 hours every day. I am used to it now. I do have over 15 years of experience and my management expects me to do multiple roles.

[@shameekd9192]

There are two kinds of work 1. High skilled - Less work 2. Low skilled - More work

[@alfddlf123]

Anand, I have been watching your channel for a while now and here's my 2 cents on this. I have been in the IT industry for close to 12 years now. From what I see the core reason for work pressure is corporate greed. Let me explain. Lets say there's an amount of work that can be done in N days. Typically aggressive senior management (VPs/Directors) pitch that they can do the same work in say 15-20 % lesser time with improved quality metrics. This inevitably leads to work pressure on the engineering folks and there's no way to work around it other than switching to a better workplace. More often than not if you are part of such aggressive organizations most people below the senior management (team leads) would have bought into this work culture and push it on their teams. Leaf level engineers who also buy into this idea of over working are seen as key resources. People who don't are not seen as a good fit and are slowly phased out

[@sujithkvarghese5616]

Company culture is one of the main reason for work pressure. This is especially true for east Asian companies.

[@CareerTalk]

East Asian companies like?

[@sujithkvarghese5616]

LG, Samsung, Huawei, Sony, Toshiba etc etc

[@टिरंजननकले]

@@sujithkvarghese5616 Agree. I have seen people working in these companies put herculean efforts keeping aside personal life. Japanese work culture is extreme where people laugh at you if you work less than 12 hours per day. Normal working hours in Toyota/Honda/Mitsubishi in Japan is 12 to 16 hours.

[@kartikey0208]

@@टिरंजननकले I heard a managemebt consulting company( not sure about name may be NCR) of japan which has office in gurgaon has great work life balance, as Japanese are sensitive towards work life balance. So is my info correct?

[@टिरंजननकले]

Work pressure in Indian IT companies(TCS/Wipro etc) is high, mainly due to mis-calculation of project/deadline estimates going wrong and over promises to client. Vast majority of managers in Indian IT companies don't know head and tail about project management. What they know is if some task is not getting done by 2 developers, put two more developers sitting on bench to do the task or put pressure put pressure on developers to work round the clock. IT companies also exist in Germany,UK,France,Australia,Netherlands but people don't work like slaves.

[@CareerTalk]

While we cannot generalize that managers are doing this but it is true that some folks are not good at project management

[@Kiran-eQVsuKMVLQz7eNbd]

MNCs brought the five day work culture to India and the Indian managers made it worse by making us work long hours.

[@टिरंजननकले]

@@CareerTalk Agree. IMO, project management/people management is a skill and can be taught but one has to have some built-in leadership skills of convincing the developers, high level leadership to get work done.Number of years of experience may produce bosses but not necessarily leaders.

[@You12783]

It's all thanks to the labour laws in our country. In my opinion there should be a dedicated section in factories act, minimum wages act, etc for IT professionals.

[@Sameer_9715]

Agreed with your thoughts but with pressure there are benefits as well like your technical skills enhances when there is good amount of work everyday and also if you achieve some good results in pressure then you can demand for hikes at right time. Pressure exists in every job wherever you get good income, but at the end of day it's all about how well you manage your pressure. The major concern arises when there is high pressure but low income and also when you don't learn anything after doing a lot of work.

[@CareerTalk]

Thanks for sharing your perspective Sameer

[@raghav9721]

Sir as i am a fresher your videos are gem 💎 for me❤

[@harishpatidarArdentRailFan]

Sir your channel name it more suits "Corporate talks" than "Career talks"😊

[@CareerTalk]

Harish 🙂🙂🙂

[@Godgodgod203]

To speak honestly being an IT employee I will feel exhausted if I stretch for an extra hour after my shift , ofcourse if it is really necessary for business then I can but not every day for sure .

[@CareerTalk]

True that 🙌

[@TT-qv5bt]

True.. product based companies are much better than service industries in terms of work, salary and job time

[@rajatbhattacharya8449]

It depends on projects, worked 90 hours in a week with 25k salary with 1 yrs experience, Also worked 25-30 hours in a week on different project with much experience. What I experienced is that if any project is new or having demanding client has to face this. But this pressure comes more when client company is declining and going through several mergers. Then they have to do lot of cost cutting on IT Budget which affects is.

[@AmanSAPacademy]

Great insights! This video addresses common concerns about work pressure in the IT industry and provides practical tips for managing it. Keep creating and helping people 👍👍

[@CareerTalk]

Thanks a lot Aman

[@satheeskumar4476]

It was really helpful for me to take clear decisions Sir after watching this content! Thank you a lot!

[@CareerTalk]

Glad to hear that

[@eshamhetre2303]

Thankyou Anand sir, I really needed your wisdom today.

[@CareerTalk]

Hello Esha, Glad you found it helpful 🙌

[@Bazi-x4u]

All problems have one common root cause few jobs more people available to do the job or problem of plenty. As of now the only solution is, if possible, migrate to other countries. Exceed expectation there is meet expectation here. Still most people are working on legacy technologies such as Mainframes, AS 400, SAP, Oracle ERP etc....ppl work for 20 years in the same technology. In most of the western world culturally people are a bit relaxed, give preference to personal life, thereby work conditions are also a bit relaxed (except a very few startups)

[@UPENDARK]

Great Insights, Work pressure or stress, which is an individual level and company level. Most of the time failing at planning and execution level

[@krishnaraoragavendran7592]

Yes, work pressure is because you are doing the wrong job or the right job in the wrong way.

[@Kiran-eQVsuKMVLQz7eNbd]

It's not always the work, it's because of the stupid superiors

[@CareerTalk]

Yes, this may be one of the reason.

[@binayakgshankar9188]

Yes in my case, Understaffing is the issue.

[@CareerTalk]

Hi Binay, Yes that is an issue in many companies

[@ganesanchinnasamy9474]

Good one Anand!! Thanks a lot!

[@CareerTalk]

Glad you found it helpful Ganesan

[@aamiransari-lp4fd]

In my tenure of 10 years working in one of the best service based IT firms, I rarely feel any pressure work situation, most ppl do not feel the joy at work or feel pressure because they hate doing 9-5 job are govt job aspirants type of mindset who don't want hard work and medicore mindset

[@CareerTalk]

Thanks for sharing your experience Aamir

[@aamiransari-lp4fd]

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[@ManaKathalucanada]

@@aamiransari-lp4fdstrange as my friend works in CTS and is always frustrated, unhappy and works longer hours

[@soanbabustores1596]

Ideally people who take pressure are pressurized more. Idea solutions is to relax and enjoy your coding and deliver at your speed.

[@praveenraj7983]

start up pressure not little more it's more more pressure

[@CareerTalk]

That's true Praveen :)

[@subratkumarpurohit8686]

There is no substitute to hard work.. pressure comes when you can't deliver things.. also when you do Same work multiple times it becomes easy!!

[@pramod1591]

Please don't demean the word "competitive". The meaning of competitive in service based companies is that they signed the deal for very cheap price, by underestimating the project efforts. That means that, if the project was supposed to get completed in 20 months, then the project signed by the service based company was with a promise of completing it in 10-12 months or utilising less people in the team. That's the only differentiator among services companies. Every Tom, Dick and Harry runs a service based company, everyone is a digital transformation partner (while many of the top management of the companies do not even understand what it means, lol 😂), every body does the same work. So how do they differentiate themselves? Time and Money are the only factors. The one who quotes less time and money will stand to be the winner, mostly. And that's where all the pressure begins for the team. They have to work on weekends, long hours per week, etc. That's where the quality of work gets affected. And when the project backlog gets released, the team gets blamed for the quality and gets a sound thrashing by the customer, and they need to work extra hard to resolve the defects. The top management blames the delivery manager or account manager. The delivery or account manager blames the project manager. The project manager blames it on the team leads and the team. Overall the mental and physical health of the team members go for a toss

[@CareerTalk]

Pramod you have given such a detailed response that I cannot challenge it 🙂

[@pramod1591]

@@CareerTalk Those who are new to industry should know the truth, as I too have experienced it

[@vivekjain2261]

@Pramod - This is by far the best comment on this video post. Indeed a True reality.

[@kartikey0208]

A sincere query please reply I am a fresher I need the prespective, So are Product based companies better like FAANG, Salesforce, Oracle etc which follow the SDE scheme. When compared to Wipro, infosys, capgemini.

[@kartikey0208]

A sincere query please reply I am a fresher I need the prespective, So are Product based companies better like FAANG, Salesforce, Oracle etc which follow the SDE scheme. When compared to Wipro, infosys, capgemini, Tech mehindra etc.

[@nickharrison3748]

my experienced manager used to say "if you want to give work, give it to a busy person"

[@dhawalparmar7117]

I am in Fintech company, but work pressure is very less and rarely

[@vivekdesai8500]

Great info, Thank you!

[@CareerTalk]

Thanks Vivek

[@meditationmantra6658]

Hi sir am a process associate its being a year working with the company currently the client am working is reducing head count and am on the list they told if we internally have any process we will move into it but i have 2 needs improvement in my last 6 month record so the manager says other process will not consider the performance hence look for options from your side as well Am unable to understand what kind of role should i apply in other company or how should i go ahead what skills to learn I had a previous experience of office administration for 3 yrs and in this corporate as 1 yr as content reviwer Request you to please suggest

[@niksatan]

If you are "going somewhere", then pressure is acceptable, otherwise, no

[@CareerTalk]

Going somewhere as in Growth?

[@niksatan]

if you are learning competitive stuff that will make you stronger in job prospects in the future@@CareerTalk

[@rishabdharamakar]

Work Pressure--- Can be due to many reasons like 1)Company-product base: "makes u work a lot" 2)Team: "Some teams that are more customer focussed then u will always be working 24x7" 3)Feature or Product that you are working on may be critical so everyone might be behind u for the status 4)Bad management: May be Manager or Teammates who are Toxic--This will create a lot of pressure as they will always try to find issues to hit on u

[@CareerTalk]

Thanks for sharing Rishab

[@Kiran-eQVsuKMVLQz7eNbd]

Great Insights as usual

[@CareerTalk]

Thanks Kiran

[@enigma7080]

Service based company are worst. After sometime you should move to banks or product based company.

[@CareerTalk]

For technical experts or domain experts this is certainly a good move

[@kartikey0208]

What according to you are the + of Product based company as compared to service based please elaborate, and how the banks fit into the picture.

[@enigma7080]

@@kartikey0208 more than 10% average hike per year. Plus bonus. Also WLB is very good compared to service based. After certain salary range it is very difficult to survive in service based. They will release you from the project. After that they will fire you.

[@kartikey0208]

@@CareerTalk Can you please elaborate this point here and in future video as well.

[@tahirsengine]

Great sir. What to do when you don't know what is your area of passion? Any thoughts?

[@ThePratik822]

I am programmer from last 6 years but I am just waiting for weekend should my career grows?

[@entertainment11378]

I have around 6 yoe , very gud work life balance in my project but do not have much to learn, should i stay there or looking for new job where i could enhance my skill

[@FoodMania907]

What about performance issue in IT companies , and giving warning ⚠️ to me , what do I do ?

[@karthikbalaji2001]

Don't quit, wait to get terminated, so that you will get severance pay. And find a new job

[@ganeshvlogs6016]

Hi sir, I have completed my graduation in mech in 2021, now i have two offers one is software(IGIS developer) in start up and another one is oil and gas in gulf(saudi) so which is good and career growth..so could you please help me ,i am in dinema.....your valuable reply is need to me sir..THank you!...which is good in now and also future.

[@azeemabdul1170]

Choose oil and gas buddy, in many ways it will yield good to you 🎉

[@ganeshpediredla5338]

​@@azeemabdul1170thank u so much..

[@uravind]

Thanks for the informative content 👍

[@CareerTalk]

Glad you found it helpful

[@venugopalkante4111]

Most of the tier 3 and 4 IT companies don't even pay salary regularly for employees, and if you want to have a job in MNC then reference is compulsory, with out reference you will not get job , even if you are skilled, 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sanjeetbehera5620]

He is 1000% true...

[@Crenuse4051]

Sir , when recession will be end and hiring will start ?

[@soumyaranjanjena6746]

Hi you didn't tell the solutions of last problem at end

[@sowjanyap5827]

Even if there is stress in product company you will do meaning work, unlike service based where more than half of your time goes into unrelated and useless work.

[@factsindian2024]

Always service based is best to work, in product based you will not have any personal life😢

[@SS-tw2rx]

Guys our indian management companies they suck blood for money not all companies but most of the companies they built un wanted pressure on employees. I really worked in india and pressure for business like hell. I am now working abroad they understand the value of human and pressure on one person. Duties timings. Really beleieve me they are killing us. We are going under one type of slavery. Where employer already has in his mind how to pressure how he can suck blood of employees and he hire HR same of his mind. We people dont understand pressure is not life you spoil your life with pressure.

[@prayogaluphalithalu4305]

Tea shops are better than these it jobs...life long stressful except that first 2 years of honeymoon period

[@CareerTalk]

Well running a tea stall is not that easy. Imagine standing in the sun and the heat.

[@anshusaxena08]

Have put on pip now

[@Srini8174]

Good videos

[@CareerTalk]

Thanks Srinu

[@sirajtr4226]

11 years in IT industry and never worked overtime even for an hour in my life😂

[@CareerTalk]

Wow, which company, which country, which role

[@jayachandrareddy3190]

Definitely you are not a developer

[@sanketdeshmukh7490]

HR

[@Srini8174]

😊😊😊😮

[@kollisatish7867]

I feel very bored if no pressure on my work. The thumb rule was if we didn't know the correct resolution to fix the issue, automatically we would feel pressure. So we need to fight with the issue, not with the boss. Due to pressure, I switched to multiple jobs but I realised that finally, I needed to learn to handle the pressure not escape from the pressurized job.😎 We can switch jobs only while we are getting repeated issues in work and no progress in our career/learning.

[@rocknur]

💯💯💯 True

[@CareerTalk]

Thank You @rocknur 🙏

[@amynguy]

there is no work life balance in IT

[@JohnR-fc7vr]

Instead of talking all this why don't you actually make videos that shame the corporate top people for exploitation? You are exactly what is called as herd mentality.

[@CareerTalk]

Ok

[@JohnR-fc7vr]

@@CareerTalk I'm sorry for my tone in the previous message. 🙏 There is an exodus of people from our country into Western countries. Because they want a better work culture. This is very bad for all of us. We are losing the cream of employees every year. The work motivation has to come from the individual, like you say. There's no doubt. But at the same time the way Indian companies burn out all employees is inhuman. Parents don't have time for their kids. Then who will bring up the next generation. Look around you - see any 10 people. How many volunteer on the weekends to improve the country. There's 1/10 or even less. This is also our responsibility as citizens. Please Google gemsofbollywood. It will open your eyes to the shocking thing happening in India. And yet no one speaks about it. Because we are all busy 14 hours every day. Look at the health crisis in India. It is the diabetes capital of the world. Capital of the world. The highest among all countries. Once we step out into other countries we see how healthy they are. But in India the majority have 14-16 hours a day. This is pure exploitation by the business owners. I'm not saying they are evil. They're also doing good for our country. But it should not come at the expense of the lives of people. It is not a question of passion (that is the common reason to justify this 16 hours exploitation). Plz look at the US / Europe. 🙏They work only 8 hours. Does that mean they are less passionate? Ask them to work on the weekends. See how they will react. Lack of passion? No. They are more innovative and more passionate than we are. We are very good at working hard and delivery more than they deliver in the same 8 hours. In spite yet we have a culture of 14-16 hours work. I don't have time to create KZbin videos because I'm also working 14-16 hours everyday. But you are at least free of the rat race and have the power to make a difference in our country. You have the power and the industry experience to know if what I'm speaking is the truth. That is why I appeal to you. Please consider whether it is only budding employees who needs to improve attitude or also the businessmen in India. 🙏