Their CVs are often total BS.
Somehow more rude than Chinese people.
Their food stinks.
There are not enough good Indian restaurants in my opinion. I like Indian curries like Chana Masala and Chicken Chettinad. But there is not enough restaurants serving those dishes.
There are way more Chinese restaurants serving Kung Pao Chicken and Shrimp and Broccoli. But not enough Indian restaurants serving curries.
This is where the engineering skills of the Indian people can be put to good use.
Wait a second. Indian food has some of the most creative spicing on the planet. Their vegan food is good, and their tandoori plates are excellent.
Going back to 1985, I was living in Vancouver Canada.
Seemingly every taxi driver was an Indian immigrant and with a PhD in engineering or physics or.....
Most would ask me for a job or leads to a job.
“I can not find a job since I came here!”
Now I know why.
I have found most “engineers” of Indian descent are not logical/linear thinkers. If it falls outside their level of expertise, they become paralyzed and grasp for easy solutions.
My experience with them is that they don’t understand things at a root level. They don’t understand the basic theory of operation of IGBT’s, Op Amps, and comparator circuits. They tend to be barely familiar with Pulse Width Modulation. Certainly, incapable with RF systems.
Their software skills are usually Windows based, and are not close to understanding Linux Compute Stack processing over multiple systems using iLo or similar. Their programming code tends to be inelegant and poorly commented or documented.
The entire kitchen and building
The “Bobs” in our IT department are beyond useless. I am their enemy as there were a couple of projects they were working on for years for millions of dollars that I needed right now on the factory floor and had a demonstration running over a weekend, and within a couple of months had running nation wide for a tiny fraction of the cost without any freakin meetings. At the beginning, there were many instances where during a remote call in a meeting with a plant manager, the “Bobs” were giving their usual spiel about one year and x hundred thousand dollars, and then the plant manager would ask what I thought at which time I would announce that I had configured it while the meeting was happening and they could start using it immediately. Our engineering group just does it now if it is remotely touching the factory process.
Not only the software engineers.
During the 90’s a major jet engine manufacturer hired an Indian PHD to be the manufacturing development group manager. He thought that just because he approved or directed something, that made it so. He quickly had his yes man army and wouldn’t hear contrary reports. The guys running the machines came into my office, complaining about a material batch that we were using to make experimental blades. I took their concerns to the engineering meeting. He basically said ‘ what do machine operators know?. I checked out the material, wrote it up, and he told me to keep my nose out of development business. ( He was my bosses boss). I went to the Plant Financial officers office, and told him I needed to speak to him as the ombudsman, because I could see a test stand, a development engine, and our plant taking damage over this bad material. Then I bent the 3/8 thick titanium forging over my knee. After the investigation was over, it turns out our PHD had signed off and skipped a heat treat operation in the routing. The plant manager basically gave me a project position so i could help the floor develop new processes. Because the Indian wanted me fired for going over his head. The best indian Food is a style called Hakka... It’s basically chinese with indian spices.
They all knew exactly how much everyone else made, even though the tradition in corporate culture is for no one to share his/her salary with anyone else.
They were very bad at collecting requirements, and they adhered to what requirements they gathered with an obstinance that was astounding. If the requirement was to test that a number was greater than X, even if it was obvious that the customer meant greater than or equal, they would code greater than, generate errors, and require the agreement of a superior to change the code.
I knew it was the beginning of the end for that start up when this happened.
I can never understand a word they say. Even though they are supposed to be speaking English.
I live in a neighborhood that is largely Indian and Chinese. Being that this is northern New Jersey, the rudeness makes them fit right in. 😂