Replies

[I worked for a very brief time with a Indian [dot] woman S/W engineer.

She was very intelligent and got my legacy system enhanced to dance to my tune in very short order.

I was impressed.

No typical dragged out s/w coding / spec writing drama.

Totally EZ PZ.]

Maybe I’m the exception to the rule, but I’ve never had issues with Indian talent. They tend to be leftish, ideologically, but are almost uniformly (with one exception) intelligent and pedal to the metal, in terms of work ethic. While it’s certainly possible that the pay imbalance is so huge that we are scraping the bottom of the barrel in India, and getting the dregs, companies with huge margins that wouldn’t sweat the difference are paying for Indian talent. We are talking Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. And they continue to vacuum up the vast majority of Indian H1B’s, without exactly losing a step.

https://h1bgrader.com/reports/sponsors/lca/2022

If Indian talent were obviously inferior, you’d think companies that embargoed this resource would have a competitive advantage and quickly overcome the big IT incumbents. And yet those incumbents continue to stand tall in sales and profits.

companies with huge margins that wouldn’t sweat the difference are paying for Indian talent

True. The FAANG companies and those like it are cost no bar companies. Their entry criteria is understandably very high. Google's hiring process is legendary in the industry. They could hire from anywhere in the world including from right here in the US of A. The fact they hire so many from India's elite insitutions - mainly the top 5 IIT's including sending their recruiters to India to hire their top graduating students, speaks highly of those institutes. I should add not all H1B's fall in that category. In fact the vast majority don't.

Their Indian led HRs hire only dot Indians.

And the biggies have far to fall. Watched biggies from the 80s and 90s make multiple multimillion dollars blunders while on the top of their game...supposedly.

And they ain’t biggies anymore.