| | By Akanksha Prasad @ Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:48 PM
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| | Syntel Pune has been accused of forcing its software developers to resign from the company or shift to the outsourcing division.
In the past week, around a dozen engineers have resigned from the company, while 43 opted to join the Knowledge Process Outsource (KPO) division.
One of the team members that joined the KPO, on condition of anonymity told IT Examiner that about 60 per cent of these were confirmed employees and had been working for the company for more than a year.
He added, 'We were given about half an hour to choose between joining the Syntel KPO, voluntarily resigning from the company or accepting the termination letter from their side.' However, as part of the employee contract, the company has promised to pay three months salary to the employees who have resigned.
Another software developer, who claims to be one of the company's most efficient engineers, complains about the lack of transparency in throwing the employees off the project. 'Syntel follows a process called Lean for scrutinising its employees. But the company did not ask for any test before pushing the employees out of the Syntel IT Services firm,' the developer said.
The move came in response to the closure of the Chrysler Financial project, which Syntel won about four months back. After winning the bid, it started preparing a team of 92 engineers for the project.
Surprisingly, of this 92, about 55 were forcefully pushed out of the IT services firm. And the rest have been put on the Global Bench, which means they do not have any project in hand and will be among the first to be laid off. The company has provided no reason for their selection, but it is observed that all the fresh recruits - on lower pay - have been retained. The company is now conducting a round of tests for the employees on the bench. The employees speculate it may be a filtering process designed to get rid of more of the workforce.
Though Syntel will still work on the project, the responsibility is off for the Pune center. Chrysler was funding its project through the bailout package provided by the government, and under this clause, all the tasks should be done internally and should not be outsourced. As a result of this, Syntel Pune lost the project. Prior to this, the centre lost another project, Trageto, leading to more forced layoffs.
Syntel declined to comment. X
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