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I am in the process of R2I and leaving in a couple of months. I started my job hunt in India.
I have about 15+ years of experience and little bit out of touch with the Indian job market.
In the US I have never been out of work even for a day and always used to get responses to my resume as soon as I post in the job websites or send it directly to a company through their career portals.
I kind of expected the same to happen when I submit resumes to companies in India. However I am highly disappointed that I am hardly getting any responses back.
One thing I found by talking to friends in India is that, companies hire developers and sr. developers (less than 5 to 7 yrs exp) through job websites like Monster, Naukri etc.
Whereas for people with 15+ yrs exp. who are looking for Management cadre positions are purely hired through referrals and internal promotions.
I think this is going to be along drawn out process before I find a job.
I will post my experiences as and when something turns up.
Please post your views and suggestions if any.

One common factor you would find is - factor of domination. The interviewer come with feeling that "I am better than you are" and some how I have to win. You are expected to know portal design with latest design pattern and technology as well how can you convience customer. It does not stop there but you have to have fair understanding of budgeting a development/maintainance project. This is based on my personal experience. What I find out was the interviewers are fairly young and inexperienced at least for first round. You have to be intelligent to divert the topic to steer into your own domain - which I find really difficult being a tech person. Initially I was puzzelled is how they can have such a vivid knowledge in young age and what did I found is "the burger is half done" - They just know it and not experienced.
My advise is if possible get into what management role you desire in here in US before moving back. I changed my plan after having not able to handle "jack of all" trade :)

Hii,

For your type of profile , it is always better to go through referrals in the company and if possible through people abroad who are in the company you are applying to in India. I went through naukri and monster and my CV was not even considered when it reached the concerned people within the company. I realised that i was getting rejected because the people who were having a look at my CV were not so experienced as I was and were talent who stayed in India and rose up the ranks and felt that someone with 13 years of experience abroad was not required and will be a misfit . I started getting responses only when i used friends based out in Europe who sent my CV to the top guys in India .Then it became impossible for middle management to reject and thanks to god and my friends I am moving soon back .