Onsite ambition reality in TCS
This post is for people who are joining or staying in TCS for onsite opportunities. First of all, forget about US opportunities until unless you have a lot of patience, time and ability to adjust to internal politics. Only C3 gets automatic approval. For C2, you have to get exception approval. For other countries, the process is fairly simpler but the number of openings are very less by nature and also companies will go for local hires/contractors instead of sending people onsite. Also there are restrictions to jump companies based on the visa type you are provided. Now coming to the salary part, I am C3B and I have enquired salaries across US, Canada, UK , AUS ,etc. Regardless of the country, you will be given a 3 years developer salary in that country standard , for example 85k for US, 100k for AU. Bear in mind this salary is for C3B, so for lower grades it is much worse. So please plan to move to onsite ONLY if you fall under all the conditions below,
- Your CTC is less than 15 lakhs.
- You are unmarried and more concentrated to save money by not travelling, not eating out, basically forgo your wants and live off basic needs. As a side note , do you know that monthly rent for house for a family costs around 2.5K in US , whereas your in hand salary is only 5K. And this is just one example.
- You are exceptionally skilled in the tech stack you are working in as when you are trying to switch at onsite after a few years, in the interviews, you need to compete layed off people from meta, Amazon and hundreds of other startups. TCS has not got a good reputation in your resume even in India, so imagine how it will be in other countries. All the DP, DM, DH that you see in your project had probably spent many years at onsite before they decided to come back and settle down at offshore and they will never go back due to poor salary to live along with family. All in all if you are having a good package and ability to upskill, switch to a different company in India!
Onsite salary does not depend on your offshore salary and grade ?? It will be same for a guy who make 20 LPA in C3B and for guy who make 44LPA in C3B please explain.
It is the same for a grade. Doesn't matter what your salary is in India. Both of them would be getting the same 85K in US. Only UK/Europe is different, but that also is useless logic , ur CTC in INR salary will be converted to pounds/ euros and paid. So 5 - 10 lakhs difference in salary in India doesn't matter much in euros.
Also bear in mind UK / Europe has higher tax amongst all countries, more than 50% will go in taxes and insurance.
Onsite is not just about salary. It's a new experience to live in a different country, new culture, clean air, plenty of open spaces, travel, new cuisine, self discovery and so on.
For singles, beautiful girls and boys to mingle with as well
I do agree with this. However you can still do all these with a good salary at onsite in other companies instead of TCS. That was my point. Let me be clear, I am not against onsite in general, I am against TCS onsite policies.
I have 2 yoe in tcs. Do I have a chance to go to onsite?
If your total experience is only 2 years, probably mexico and similar countries. Definitely not US, UK etc. Personally if u upskill and get a good package in couple of years, you can enjoy in Bangalore/ Mumbai, than in Mexico. There is no lifestyle difference. Lifestyle difference will kick in only if you go the developed nations.
Are you in tcs ? Because if you are I would love for you to be my mentor
True, onsite is suitable only for bachelors that too within 4-5 years of early experience. After 4-5 years of experience, would get better takehome package in offshore when jumping!
Ye Bhai sach bol gya.. harsh truth.. but reality
Thanks for the information. Now kindly help me get an onsite. Location no constraint as long as it's outside South Asia.
Nobody can help anybody get onsite in TCS. Only 2 people matter. Ur client manager is ready to sponsor you, your account delivery head has enough reason to send you onsite to make use of you to bring in more projects to offshore.
What about BPS tagging people. I am currently BPO3 and working as Business analyst having exp of 10 years and salary is only 9 lakh. Soon releasing from project was planning to apply onsite. Does it beneficial for me?
I am not aware of BPS policies. But knowing TCS , I don't think it would be any better. You can check with your peers.
Whatever you said is true to some extent but with this much pessimism you cannot move to other country. You need to have a bigger game plan instead of just relying on TCS. For e.g US is the biggest market for product based companies and yes there will be initial struggle to get out of TCS but once you go out then sky will be limit. With hard work and upskilling there will be no stopping there. Yes, competition will be there from everyone and we shouldn’t shy away from competition if we have to move up the ladder. However , in india after multiple switches there will be a saturation point as India is more of a service oriented market.
What if salary is less than 15 lakh ctc and c1. Don't want to go US, canada and australia. What are the other options if go onsite. How salary structure change onsite. Suppose for example 70k per momth is salary in india. What will be onsite. For example, sweden, netherlands like this country.
Are you in a project where client has office in Europe ? C1 don't get onsite nowadays, until unless you are with the same project/account for a couple of years and you are of digital/ innovator cadre and also you don't have seniors already. To put it simply, if you are most critical resource (not from your perspective, your deliver manager's perspective) who has run the project for the last 2 years and there is a visibility where the project will run for 2 more years based on you. Then yes. Please understand that TCS will send people onsite if they can bring in new projects and you are able to add resources at offshore, else there would be no difference you would make by working here or over there.
