As India’s IT industry grapples with the challenge of reskilling employees towards digital technologies, the impact of this workload shift has not been easy on the workforce, who are using memes and ‘confessions’ on internal social media to poke fun at the status quo and to laugh off woes.
For instance, a popular meme depicts a courtroom scene from the 1991 Tamil movie ‘Thalapathi’ starring Rajinikanth, caricaturing the problems faced by those who possess limited digital skills.
Rajinikanth is being questioned by a police officer – “What coding languages are you proficient in? What are the development methodologies you have worked on?”
To this, a distraught Rajinikanth replies, “I do not know, I do not know, I do not know! Within three months of joining, I was thrown into support roles!”
With digital-led revenue becoming the focus area for growth, the software services providers’ increasing fixation on full-stack developers has spurred such memes on unofficial social media forums of IT services providers such as TCS, Cognizant and Wipro, among others.
Parthiban*, a software test engineer with Wipro and meme creator who also manages a page that cross references content from various IT social media pages, said full-stack developers have been highly sought after over the past few months.
Source: Economic Times
