Americans seeking jobs in booming Bangalore, India

MSNBC ^ | Apr 2, 2006 | Gautam Singh / AP

[Republican Party Reptile]

Like it or not, it's a global economy, work with it ... I work in the IT industry, I have gone through two lay-offs myself and have no illusion it can happen again (and again). But each time I have gotten back trying to stay ahead of the curve, if the company wants to move supply chains and IT operations to Asia, that's where I'll go and be part of creating and driving the process (so I spent the last few years living and working in Singapore and China, with a few visits to India :)), if the company wants to develop IT resources in Eastern Europe, well, that's where I'm heading off next to to Czech Republic and Hungary and Romania to be part of the team to figure out how to do it ...

[oceanview]

the US tech industry is on the glide path to oblivion.

[the invisib1e hand]

and the women....!

[Republican Party Reptile]

shhhhh!

[tallhappy]

He’s part of a small but growing number of young Americans moving to Bangalore and other Indian cities to beef up their resumes

Oh man... Beef up ... in India.

This writer deserves censure.

[manwiththehands]

Mr. Linkon is an illegal immigrant in India and just doing a job Indians don't want.

[tallhappy]

No one cares about your little travels and travails.

Why you think you have to say: "Like it or not"... is a mystery as well. You think people are going to not like it? You think it is bad yourself?

My first reacion is : cool!

Or, maybe, warm as in not having to live in the arctic of Wisconsin.

Americans have always gone where we need to go.

[ran15]

My feeling is fighting globalization is like trying to stop the tide from coming in. There is just so much gains from it, that it will always be pushing further in.

Better to make sure you are valuable.. People who add value will always command a wage relative to the value they add in a global or national economy. If one company won't pay it there are others that will.

[1rudeboy]

Funny you should say that, on the basis of this article.

[Nowhere Man]

ping

[Dialup Llama]

...if the company wants to move supply chains and IT operations to Asia, that's where I'll go and be part of creating and driving the process...

What makes you think you'll be able to do this? Other countries have much more restrictive policies regarding foreigners taking jobs there.

The msnbc article says this "Nearly 800 Americans are working or interning at information technology companies in India..." Eight freaking hundred !?! How many Indians do we bring over with H1B and L1 visa EACH YEAR? The Senate bill wants to increase that number by 500,000 more per year. The TOTAL number of Americans in India is just 800 (for all years). The CEO class lectures us and tells us that we should go to India... for 800 jobs?

[stm]

Does this mean I might actually talk to an American when I call Dell's tech support????

[trashcanbred]

Prague is beautiful if you go to the Czech Republic.

[oceanview]

actually, what is happening is that people (college students) are focusing on "safe" disciplines and professions - teaching, law, real estate, etc. that's what we are producing in this country - more teachers and lawyers people flipping real estate and "paper". because no one is going to go to school for 5 years and go into debt, to get a job competing with the indians or chinese for wages - or worse yet as in this article, having to take a job in Bangalore.

see what's happening in France now? the US is just 15 years behind them.

[oceanview]

yes, gains for who? gains for 100 Oracle executives, who can now buy Gulfstream Vs and 180 foot yachts, because they offshored a few thousand $75K US engineers to Bangalore.

[trashcanbred]

I used to think so too at first but not anymore. Unlike France the great thing about America is the job market is flexible. The tech market in the US is going to do quite well... most of it depends on the quality of the universities we have which are still top rate.

Manufacturing on the other hand is in a very bad state.

[voletti]

Good point.

The reason why Americans aren't going out in droves is that the pay sucks but for what you do make you can probably live pretty well in a country like India.

I've heard many immigrants here complain about the high handed ness of the US embassy and consular staff. From what I know, Indian embassy staffers aren't very nice either. But visa restrictions etc are not really a problem in India. Besides Delhi's talking capital account convertibility and I expect that happening within a coupla yrs max. then, Americans can live and work in and out of India and take their money with them in and out of India as and when they want to. Things will even out then, sorta.

[Republican Party Reptile]

Yes, I remember visiting Prague the first time in 1990 just a few months after the velvet revolution, it was love at first sight :) beautiful city indeed. Haven't been back since the mid-90's, am very much looking forward to the next visit.

[Tailgunner Joe]

They are only taking the outsourced jobs that Indians won't do.

[oceanview]

the university programs for sciences would be closing in droves now (in low and mid tier schools), if not for matriculation of foreign nationals. eventually, those nations will build university systems of their own, and their students will go to school there.

why pay a US college professor $80K to teach you engineering, when a professor in India can do it for $30K? the same forces taking the jobs offshore, will apply to education also. the market forces cannot be stopped.