I have discovered, when you get an Indian recruiter on the phone, they CANNOT hear the word 'no'. Saying 'no' but remaining on the phone, to them, means you are still negotiating. The only 'no' they understand is a hangup.
Personally, I believe this is the reason for arranged marriages in India.
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So I take it you don’t order Indian food carry out very often.
Hey, I live in Boomfoque, WY.
Why are you dissing the place? ;)
Funny but ,true
Especially is this true if his name is Peggy.
Sorry Laz, I realize I just repeated your example.
Can I talk about hard coding? As in: How do you determine if an account is an asset?
Correct Solution: Look at account attribute (OMG, external lookup table maybe!).
Indian solution: Look for a “1” in column 2 of the account number (since that is what they “usually do.”)
“The only ‘no’ they understand is a hangup.”
You must be getting the smart ones.
In the last couple days I’ve had two call back.
Oh it isn’t just on the phone.....
I deal with Indians in this country and they do not understand the word no. They think you should cut the price on an item because then they will buy it. They will come back multiple times, always five minutes before the store closes. They will stay at least thirty minutes past closing hoping to wear you down.
They think everything is a bazaar. I don’t like dealing with any of them. They are pushy, rude, and arrogant.
Sometimes I tap on the phone with a pencil and tell them I have the Attorney General on the line and say, “Yes, this is the one I was telling you about”.
Ask them if their refrigerator is running.
I asked one where he was (India)...and if he was a terrorist trying to hack my computer.
I don’t work in IT, but living here in the Silicon Valley I’ve gotten quite a few calls from Indian recruiters. And it seems nearly ALL of them just search CareerBuilder for candidates.
The one time I accepted a job from a recruiter who called me (and btw, he wasn’t Indian) I landed in an absolutely miserable position and for only the second time in my forty-nine years left a job without notice.
But to get back on track, if I get a call and I don’t recognize the phone number (or at least if it isn’t from an area code local-ish to me) I just don’t answer. And on the off chance they leave me voicemail, I don’t respond.
And that reminds me... maybe I need to update my CareerBuilder profile. Last time I did that was about six months ago, when I left that job I was talking about earlier.
All Indian recruiters may not be the same. I think some recruiting firms intentionally hire as recruiters those who do not understand American English. They want mis-comunication. They have families in India paying them to get a job for a family member.
Some of us report that immigrants are willing to take lower wages than Citizens. That is no more true than in the job of recruiter. On my first few IT consulting gigs, 20% to 30% of co-workers were immigrants. But 100% of recruiters were natural born Citizens, African and European ancestry. Now it seems like 90% of recruiters are Indian. They work accept much lower pay than the previous American recruiters. With the low pay, they are often the bottom of the immigrant barrel in terms of English skills, and especially technical skills.
Indeed, some I’ve met seem to take their recruiting job as OJT to learn American English so they then get a better job.
But they are not all like this. My current firm is 95% Indian. I’m their token white male. I’m billable. That is all they seem to care about.