An IITian vs X in today's IT

Uday is a very hard working individual. Being a very intelligent and dedicated student he makes it to IIT Kanpur to pursue Bachelors in Technology. After graduation, He decides to continue his Masters and continues to do M.Tech at IIT itself.His thirst for knowledge never ends. So he decides to do Ph.D in a good university abroad. Being meritorious and very good at studies, he gets a scholarship and completes his research degree successfully and lands up in his dream job and loves his work at abroad itself.

After many years of working in abroad, he decides to come back to India as many NRIs do. He shifts to India. He gets an offer from a leading research firm and accepts the job. As time passes, the research firm is shut down by the management and Management focuses more on production programmes to generate revenue and avoid costs. Since the company didn’t want to fire Uday, they offer him to work in production programme.

Uday is not very happy as he always wanted to work on advanced engineering and do research rather than focus on production tasks which are quite repetitive in nature. but he accepts the offer and works in production programme and provides justice to his work in the best possible way.

Baskar is a software engineer who joins the IT industry after engineering from a not so reputed college. He begins his career in a service company and work hard and goes up the ladder. Baskar currently heads the production programme to which Uday is assigned to.

Being from services background, Baskar focuses on quick delivery and extended working hours which is not Uday’s style of working. Over a period of time, there is a clash between the two of them. In a meeting Baskar tells Uday that he is not good at his assigned job. Being so experienced person, Uday takes lot of time to do given tasks and he doesn’t need his research knowledge at the current work.

Uday feels bad and goes to higher boss Deepak to provide him a suitable role based on his background. Deepak agrees to provide him suitable role under his division. After a month’s time when Uday meets Deepak, Deepak tells him,

Deepak: Uday, you are very good engineer with excellent background. But your background is not very essential in our division. So please do the job whatever is provided.

Uday: Ok sir.

Now Uday is very upset as he doesn’t get the work he wants to do but he is unable to resign from his current organization due to personal reasons. He also cannot work under Baskar due to his clash.

So readers, please provide your valuable inputs based on uday’s perspective and deepak’s perspective.

1. Should Uday go back to abroad?

2. Should Uday resign and find another job how ever difficult It is?

3. Should Deepak be more sensible in finding Uday a role outside his division?

How to handle such cases?

This is case to show that branded education do not matter in current IT scenario in India. Will this situation change?