TCS Downward Trend since Management Change

Been a part of TCS for a long time (over 12 years). I joined from the bottom and am slowing making my way up. I stuck here for the same reasons everyone does, job security, insurance and low options beyond TCS.

In the last 5 years or so there has been a trend of management (mostly upper) to elect and hire people from a certain section of India. I am not racist, but I am noticed a trend of a certain style of management that is biased towards certain locations and regions and seems to dismiss and discourage options and opportunities to other parts of the country.

From CEOs boasting how he paid himself 16crores while people got 0.2-0.8% hike. Making WFO mandatory when it seems certain (southern) locations get WFH for rains, traffic or any damn excuse. I work from a Tier 1 City location and every few days I see a major Microsoft or Google or some major project getting launched from my location, but by the time it fruitions it seems to go somewhere else, like the clients are shown a shiny office here and then the jobs get shipped somewhere else.

There’s something called “Cross-Skilling” which is fancy word for learn to do the job of 10 people for one man’s pay, while no time off or opportunities or certifications are provided for up-skilling. TCS is rapidly becoming this profit oriented, duping clients to just get the business without developing or investing in skilling people, promotion denying organisation that it never ever was.

There are more managers than workers for so many areas of business and managers pay isn’t paid by the client, they cut short associates pay and cancel promotions and hike so upper management can keep their massive hikes.

Maybe it’s just me who feels this way ? I don’t want to offend anybody here, but I am noticing this trend from the past few years and it’s ramping up. I mean they are slowly fading away “Experience Certainty” and added a bunch of BS instead. Is it only me, who wants TCS to actually mean “Experience Certainty”…??