Inside the Outsourcing World of India

US Banker, December, 2006 by Karen Krebsbach

Infosys Technologies' 77-acre headquarters of provocative architecture, pristine roadways and manicured lawns is an oasis of efficiency and order in this nation of inefficiency and disorder, a potent symbol of how the offshoring explosion has gripped Bangalore, a city of six million known as India's Silicon Valley.

Some 15,000 employees-the average age is 26-commute to the campus on communal bicycles or golf carts, spending off-work hours at the company's swimming pool, gyms, food courts, bookstore, miniature-golf course and bowling alley. The firm's global reputation draws 1.4 million applications a year, and employees joke that it's easier to get into Harvard Business School than Infosys. Founded in 1981 by seven friends with $1,000 in startup capital, Infosys is now worth...

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