Indian engineering colleges really need to start cleaning up the detritus, it is time to provide healthy base for the young ones. Once a culture builds up, the managers at consultancy will feel ashamed to cut loose on ethics even under pressure. Or not, but a start has to be made in this aspect.
previously on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38432752 Zenefits Software Helped Brokers Cheat On Licensing Process (buzzfeed.com)
As if the engineering grads make these decisions and not managerial types with MBA degrees and "connections".
Indian engineering colleges already have 2-3 such courses in curriculum and don't need to fit yet another subject which nobody cares about, instead of teaching actual skills.
The actual knowledge of average Indian Engineering grad is very low, except in leetcode.
This is the root of the problem.
It's managers who usually make these decisions, not engineers.
Doesn't the ruling elite of most countries study humanities courses? Does that prevent them from commuting much worse attrocites than this?
To be clear, I see more "gaming the system" behavior in India, but it's purely a result of more cut-throat competition in the market. "Ethics" and "morality" courses have shit to do with it.
It's a problem of corporate culture and incentives.
Engineering ethics is knowing what's right or wrong when performing engineering work. Children develop a pretty decent sense of right and wrong. It isn't rocket science.
A 22-year old ordered by their manager to falsify data in their first month on the job knows it's wrong. They aren't going to refuse because they took some course in college. Whether or not they do it is more likely a function of how prevalent that behavior is in the organization, how often it's caught, and how publicly it's punished.
Now, with this kind of money and scrutiny you have to follow the letter of the law, whether it is productive or not. TCS should know better. But we can't pretend that this is about ethics.