Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka’s strategy helped India’s second largest software exporter to put up a brilliant show in the first quarter of fiscal 2016 and now the man is looking to turn future in his stride.Infosys is creating a team of ‘supercoders’ and has even revamped its training programme in Mysuru to take on the challenge of futuristic and challenging projects.
India’s $146 billion IT sector is going through a slowdown and Sikka is not getting bogged down and instead is looking at the future.
On the lines of Sikka’s ‘renew and new’ policy,
Infosys' head of talent and technology operations, Binod Hampapur Rangadore, told Economic Times that the company has introduced new ILP to entry-level engineers.
"ILP is all about making things a little more interesting, a little more comprehensive and a little more hands-on for trainees. So ILP is all about creating the content in such a way that there is a class, there is a practice session they have to play with and then there is a quiz and there is an assessment, interspersed between teaching," Rangadore told ET in an interview.
The ‘supercoders’, a crack team of code writers to break tough programming and software challenges, will work for Infosys’ top clients.
“We are breaking that myth - someone who can program, can program in any language. So basically we are trying to emphasize more on algorithmic thinking. We've tweaked the approach at our Foundation training program, where they actually learn in 3 different languages. They are being made to realise that three programming languages are not different from each other. So we're introducing that at the entry level," Rangadore told the financial daily.
ET reported that Infosys is also introducing 'Zero Bench', which will give programmers across the company to work on different projects.
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