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Posted on 11/06/2025 10:22:01 AM PST by libh8er
An Indian tech manager in the United States has expressed his frustration after feeling unfairly judged and resented for stereotypes associated with Indian professionals in the industry. In an anonymous post on the workplace discussion platform Blind titled “I’m an Indian manager and I feel hated for things I didn’t do,” the user shared that he came to the US on an H1B visa, worked his way up from level L5 to L7, and has always believed in fairness and merit.
The manager wrote that he has mentored colleagues from various backgrounds, hired based on talent, and never considered race, caste or nationality when making professional decisions. Yet, he now finds himself dealing with growing hostility toward Indians in tech spaces, both online and at work.
“Recently, I see so much anger toward Indians in tech. Online, people say we only hire our own, or that we bring the caste system here. It breaks me because I’ve spent my whole career trying to do the opposite,” he wrote.
The manager admitted to feeling isolated despite years in the US. “I moved to the US to belong but still feel like I live in India as my social circle is mostly Indians,” he said, adding that he wonders if he was “too naive” in believing that hard work and fairness would be enough. “I don’t know when being Indian in tech turned into something people resent,” he concluded.
Social media reactions
The post has sparked a discussion online. Reacting to the post, one user wrote, “I would never work for a H1B manager. They will never stand up for you and throw you under the bus to protect their job and status. You might be a good one but I can’t take that chance. Incentives are too perverse. I’ve never seen a H1B manager who wasn’t completely docile and a slavish.”
“I am a US citizen never on H1B but Indian origin.I am angry at what this flood of low skill uncivilized H1Bs have done to the industry and our reputation. 20 years ago, Indians were respected. Now, we are hated. Why? Because of H1B scammers flooding in who cannot behave themselves and make us all look bad. So no one feels sorry for H1Bs. I have worked very hard too, but H1Bs make it hard for US citizens, so no sympathy,” commented another.
“I think the WITCH companies have tarnished the image on Indians leave alone destroying green card opportunities for genuine Indian candidates who have done masters in the US,” wrote a third user.
“Ignore the racist comments you see online. It's sad to see the general state of racism against Indian people,” said another.
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Spoken like a true overfed government employee, or clueless manager.
Welcome to the White Man’s world.
I blame them.
Because they strut about like they own the place, and don’t even bother to learn to speak or write English.
And their default setting in all work-related contact is that you are wrong.
When they get nailed they invariably emit a cloud of squid ink in the water but speaking in high-speed undecipherable accented English as if to emphasize, “Cross me again and I’ll pull the race card and get you fired.”
They should all go back, and reparations should be paid to white males.
You are wrong.
I’ve worked beside Indians (and others) in IT since 1983.
They are not all the same. They are not all the same in skill level. They are not all the same in social isolation.
Some live 10 in a 3 bedroom house/apartment and isolate themselves. Some live in a mixed housing situation with non-Indian room-mates.
When they have immigration borderline status they seem more reluctant to integrate than when their immigration status i8 secure.
In my experience, some Indian women go out of their way to flirt, tease, seduce non-Indians. Maybe men do that also and I just don’t notice it. Of course, there are other Indian women who are very recluse.
What is obvious to me is the sudden Sep-Oct increase in Indian IT recruiters sending email to non-Indians with no apparent interest in actually hiring any non-Indians.
My grandparents and young family left Germany in 1927 and arrived at Ellis Island in October that year. They lived in the Bronx a few years before moving up to Westchester County. My dad (age 3 when he arrived) told me about life on the streets as a German immigrant shortly after WW I. It was tough. But it’s funny — I never heard Oma und Opa, Dad or his older brother and older sister ever talk about hostility toward them in the Westchester suburbs. I’ve got high school year book photos of Dad. He was on the cheer squad. Looks like he fit right in. He never had a German accent moving here at age 3. Neither did his older brother and sister. But my Oma! She passed at 99 and I still had to listen carefully.
I would love to be able to talk to them about that, but everybody has passed on.
They don’t naturally vote Democrat. There are many Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Modi conservatives and all types of political Indians.
But if we write them off, as we do the Club for Growth and Social Conservative Mexicans (Mexican President Fox was Club for Growth, Calderon was Social Conservative) then it is our loss.
They don’t naturally vote Democrat. There are many Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Modi conservatives and all types of political Indians.
But if we write them off, as we do the Club for Growth and Social Conservative Mexicans (Mexican President Fox was Club for Growth, Calderon was Social Conservative) then it is our loss.
Let's not. Also, don't be L8 !
Problem is, you didn't assimilate.
“I don’t know when being Indian in tech turned into something people resent,” he concluded.
Think about it if you're so smart. They're taking jobs away from Americans and refusing to assimilate, instead demanding we recognize their holidays.
If you want to celebrate Indian holidays, live in India.
Satyam was a big Indian consulting company that had that scheme exposed when they went bankrupt for other reasons. They had 1 competent Indian who would go on interviews at many different companies. Then the slot at each client company would be filled by someone else of unknown skill set. But contract employees of Satyam at State Farm, Allstate, CNA, Sears, Discover, etc all used the same name, same SSN, same H1b.
When it was exposed at Satyam, the practice declined for a couple years. Now it is back. Most often the practice now involves many layers of sub-contractors so the prime contractor can claim plausible deniability when it is exposed in isolated situations.
Variations of it. An Indian pretends he is his brother or cousin and keeps it in the family.
An Irishman comes to New York in 1850. Perfectly legal.
Goes to work at a stable at $12 per week where the native-born workers were being paid $15.
They would get the same crap from co-workers that H1-B workers get today.
That’s Vimal Kapur CEO of Honeywell International Inc., the parent company of Honeywell Aerospace.
Jim Currier was just announced as the CEO/President of the Aerospace group, and the only reason that I know that is that the parent company announced on their Q1 earnings call that they were spinning off the Aerospace group in 2026.
You probably were not living in Silicon Valley in 1998 when Carly Forina at HP told laid off Americans to either be fired today or spend the next 6 months training their Indian replacements.
Or the Indian engineer I worked for who would change the entire design every week for 4 months.
Or the Indian woman engineer who didn’t even understand basic IC design rules telling us to just do what she told us.
Both the above engineers were fired but not before they damaged my reputation.
>> “I think the WITCH companies have tarnished the image on Indians...”
What are WITCH companies?
I had to look it up: Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL. All big consulting companies that serve up H1-B’s to American tech companies.
Take a look at American Airlines & their CIO, today.
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