He requested anonymity.įirms such as Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, or TCS, and Wipro Ltd have earned a reputation for adopting the assembly line approach of training fresh graduates into software programmers to write codes for customers such as General Electric Co., HSBC Plc. “The training is so intensive,' said one Infosys employee, an electrical engineer from a Hubli college who joined work in the firm in November after a four-month training for those who graduate in engineering streams other than computer science. The note is with the Vijayanagara police station in Mysore as evidence.Īs Indian technology and back office firms increase hiring-the top seven will have offered jobs to some 100,000 fresh graduates by the end of March-vendors must contend with high levels of stress among recruits.

“I failed again,' the 22-year-old employee, who goes by just one name, said in a letter to her parents and brother before hanging herself in a bathroom, three months into training in Mysore. Yet a suicide note left behind by the graduate of a second-rung Indian engineering college at Sindri in Jharkhand alludes to the pressure in the programme. In a country that counts one suicide among 10,000 people every year, the incident at Infosys, which has trained some 50,000 “Infoscions', is but a blip. On 24 January, Chandraprabha, an electrical engineer from the Bihar Institute of Technology, killed herself after she failed for the second time in internal tests.

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