Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S
by IntelMiner on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:42PM
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>Ten years ago, so many Americans were making jokes about poor quality Indian code and Indian accents
It's hard to not fall into this trap in certain fields of IT. To the point it's almost not regarded as racist
Though as a Systems Admin, outsourcing is considered more of a joke than anything. The lowest bidding contractor wins, and the people they hire are absolutely abysmal.
If contracting companies did the same thing, but hiring a 100% "American workforce" (or British/Australia/etc), and they did an equally mediocre job, I'd suspect the derision would shift accordingly
There's a lot of smart Indian people. They're no "better" or "worse" than the rest of us. They're just a larger sample size that get tarred with that brush
It's hard to not fall into this trap in certain fields of IT. To the point it's almost not regarded as racist
Though as a Systems Admin, outsourcing is considered more of a joke than anything. The lowest bidding contractor wins, and the people they hire are absolutely abysmal.
If contracting companies did the same thing, but hiring a 100% "American workforce" (or British/Australia/etc), and they did an equally mediocre job, I'd suspect the derision would shift accordingly
There's a lot of smart Indian people. They're no "better" or "worse" than the rest of us. They're just a larger sample size that get tarred with that brush