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Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO by booboolayla on Thursday January 30, 2020 @07:06PM (#22197473)
Don't forget the infamous in-group preferences they bring as soon as they take over.
Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO by president on Friday January 31, 2020 @01:03AM (#22199483)
Not sure why you were downvoted. There have been lawsuits [1][2] about Indian nepotism in US companies. As always, people are quick to claim "racism".

[1] https://qz.com/india/889524/the-us-says-oracle-is-encouragin...

[2] https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/09/h-1b-san-jose-tech-fi...

Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO by programmertote on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:11AM (#22201346)
You notice it as well. :) My division was managed by an Indian managing director, who succeeded a Caucasian boss prior 2018. Within 2 years of his arrival (and his departure for another company at the end of 2019), our department has the ratio of Indian to non-Indian ratio suddenly goes from around 20% to 70% (this increase in ratio accelerated because quite a few of the non-Indian people left in the past year).

The guy that I mentioned above who asked for one whole month of vacation also encouraged another Indian guy to do the same and they both took off last December to India while some team members from other projects were asked to cover for their absence by the ex-managing director. Worse, that guy also somehow convinced our management to hire his then-fiance in mid 2019 directly from India as a manager. I just can't believe how he pulled these off, but I have to give it to him for being really good at getting things done the way he wants them.

Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO by lowdose on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:47PM (#22207955)
Good for him and good for you you can appreciate another man running his own show. I sometimes have the feeling a lot of guys are more jealous than women.
Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO by phenkdo on Friday January 31, 2020 @10:02AM (#22202168)
Interesting! This needs a tu quoque argument. Would you say the same about Jews in Banking/Finance? Is it jews hiring fellow jews?

- how come every other cop (esp. in the Northeast) has last names like Donovan or Monahan

- how come every other fireman is an O'Reilly or O'Connell

- how come every landscaping or construction business is owned by a Caruso or Piretti

- What about the "Patel Motels" or Dunkin & 7-11 franchises owned by Indians : on and on...

Ethnic niches are nothing new and extrapolating from some anecdata (and a few lawsuits) claiming discrimination is absurd.

Re:IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO by m0zg on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:10AM (#22199963)
At Microsoft we called this phenomenon the "Indocritical mass", for obvious reasons. Russians are the polar opposite of this, BTW. If a Russian is interviewing a Russian, _less_ slack will be cut than if they were interviewing anybody else.