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.
I have little actual work interaction with them due to their clannish nature. My interactions were largely in schooling, then also talking to people in my work that directly work with them.
I purposely went into power since it’s almost completely white males. I hate HR and their training.
Pretty near everyone I interact with is mostly conservative and the opposite of woke.
You’re retired, correct?
What specific field did you work in?
I’ve got some buddies that worked with a few Indian guys. Most of them had some basic blocks of code built, and if they couldn’t copy-paste them to get something working (and with almost no bug/error-testing for non-optimal user usage), they often had a buddy back in India or maybe here who would then mash some code together. No sense of security or best practices, what documentation they did do was terrible and sometimes not related to what the code actually did.
And castes were an issue - If the smartest Indian on the team happened to be from a lower caste than the other guys, he was completely ignored and just as useless as if he didn’t know anything.
I saw plenty of this in my industry - AV. One of our clients has some business partnerships with a couple Indian companies, basically mentoring them. End of year, they have their parties so we’re setting up remote streams between our big employee party here and theirs. We’ve got a complex video switcher system, a couple cameras/shaders, playback, PPT, records, and full audio setup as well. Both Indian companies basically had a laptop on a cart that we streamed to/from, I forget what software we used at the time. Way before Zoom started spying on everyone, probably before teams as well. Anyways, we’re just sitting around waiting, all our stuff is good to go. They have a team of folks in India and a couple guys with us, all trying to figure out why the audio wasn’t working or the video looked bad or this or that. It was ridiculous, needed one person on either end to set up, yet it took them almost an hour both times to get it running and looking half-decent.
It’s not a skill problem, it’s an attitude problem that IMO stems from the fatalistic Hindu culture and extreme deference to authority drilled in by both that and British occupation.
Back when I was in that business I ran into a few instances where they put a “senior” Indian engineer on a hardware troubleshooting problem, and the Indian engineer “solved” it by breaking something else, announcing that they’d found the broken thing that they broke themselves, and had a technician fix it, then they announced that they had solved the problem. Except the problem was still there.
In each case the guy who had been given “help” in the form of these Indian geniuses later found and solved the problem himself, after the “help” had left.
Worked with a bunch of Indians at my very last place of employment.
I was on vacation and a change was made to a common routine that affected every program that called it.
The “testers” (who were engineers), rather than writing 1 bug...they wrote up 1600+ bugs and patted themselves on the back for all the bugs they found.
The sad thing is, nobody questioned them til I got back.
My experience with Indian IT professionals was that many seemed to have circular type thinking and difficulty coming to (focusing on) the point. I surmised that some of this had to do with English not being their first language, which dictated their need for time to translate/toggle conversation in their mind between Hindi and English.
I am disgusted and angry at our government robbing Americans (our kids and grandkids) from good paying professional jobs, which are taken by H1B1 foreigners.
The republican form of government envisioned by our Founders no longer exists. Sadly, the corrupt and lunatic now govern us. For the sake of my/our kids, I will continue to pray for a return to Christian morality and our Constitution.