But finding a job was easier said than done, particularly when you were from a new government college with poor facilities. I finally got a job in a software product startup after someone referred me there,” says Shetty. Now we have been told to take four months’ salary and leave in two days or serve two months’ notice and leave. After working in smaller firms in Chennai, Jacob moved to Bengaluru in 2002 to join one of the biggest software companies in India. Bengaluru’s software companies are now like Maharashtra’s textile mills,” says a despondent Kumar, who was threatened by his HR team that they would snatch away his identity card if he did not resign.

Source: Economic Times May 27, 2017 17:01 UTC