The biggest IT companies in India began to quietly dismiss developers or translate them into those jobs that can not yet be automated. At the same time, they also reduced the number of people who are taken to the state. Ukrainian coders also need to "prepare for winter". The Indian IT giant Infosys said that thanks to automation it "freed" 11,000 of its employees (out of 200,000) from monotonous tasks. In addition, in 2016, the company hired 6,000 people, while in 2015 - 17,000. For the first time since the company's existence, the number of employees has decreased in comparison with the previous year.
Infosys is not the only one. Wipro, the third largest software company in India, also fired 600 employees. And this number can grow up to 2000 people. The company is also DXC Technology - the company plans to dismiss 10,000 of its 170,000 employees this year. Her plan to reduce the number of offices in the country from 50 to 26 is in full swing.
Cognizant - another world IT giant - laid off 6,000 employees. According to livemint. com, the number of laid-offs could increase to 15,000 people - the company assigned the lowest category to this number of employees.
In general, in 2017, seven leading IT companies in India will be dismissed by at least 56,000 employees. This is more than half of all IT professionals working in Ukrainian companies.
For the IT industry in India, which employs approximately 3.9 million people, dismissing 56,000 is not a problem, the market will not even notice it. All because in a typical IT-company in the country employs about 10-13 thousand people - almost as much as in the seven largest IT companies in Ukraine.
While only the largest companies can afford advanced programs for automatic code writing and business process outsourcing. But soon such software will become more accessible, and then smaller players will be able to buy it. Then this trend will reach Ukraine. Given the speed of IT development, there is not much time left.
When this happens, our developers will have to go to work more difficult - one that the machines can not yet perform. But there is not enough space for everyone, and not all will be able to learn new knowledge.
Therefore, the industry expects big cutbacks - yesterday you were a necessary specialist with currency earnings, and tomorrow your code is free to anyone and not free of charge.
"Facebook for coders," GitHub, is already thinking about future changes. Its CEO, Chris Wanstrath, said that "the future of coding in the absence of coding" and that "programming is not about typing, but about thinking". The company understands that they will have to rethink their business model - when writing and checking the code will be available to anyone, in a special resource for this there will be no sense.