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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by xienze on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:23AM (#17255967)
> The quality of engineers in India is sketchy at best in my experience.

The problem, I think, is that management draws conclusions about the quality of Indian engineers based on interactions with the ones working in the US, who by definition are the absolute best of the best. "Sanjay is one of our best engineers", the bean counter says, "and my God, there's _a billion_ of them back in India!"

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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by commandlinefan on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:39AM (#17256114)
> by definition are the absolute best of the best.

I think that's probably true - the people who can claw their way through the H1B process are probably among the best India has to offer. I don't believe that that's entirely why management loves them, though. The fact that they work 12-15 hours a day, 7 days a week, in crowded, noisy open offices without ever complaining since they're under constant fear of being fired at a moment's notice and being unable to find new work, coupled with the fact that they're capable software engineers, is why management loves them.

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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by xienze on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:15AM (#17256508)
Right, but again I think they end up drawing incorrect conclusions about the state of Indian engineers in general based on what they see with their H1-Bs.
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