The company I work for has an Indian engineering shop in Bangalore and Chennai. Four hundred + “engineers” and they produce nothing. Nothing. Aerospace firms design warplanes with fewer engineers, and these guys can’t write a line of code that will even compile. They’re kept around because an executive VP is Indian and has stacked the deck. The board is starting to question his questionable numbers.
He is paying off his family no doubt.
“They’re kept around because an executive VP is Indian and has stacked the deck.”
There’s a lot of this. Some of the Indian guys I’ve worked with are quite open with their ‘manifest destiny’ attitude - that India is the future, Indians are the best, America and Americans have already had their time.
To this end they hire, support for promotion, and network with other Indians, while we blather about diversity. Granted this bites them in the -— because the real trick is to get the best people, not the best people with brown or white skin *or* some artificially ‘diverse’ mix.
Also just to be clear, this is *some* Indians, not all by any means, but a little sub-culture that one has to watch out for.
I was once at MTT-S and there was a research group from Georgia Tech, who gave a presentation on a “novel” microwave up converter. They were 4 white guys - all graduate students - who gave that talk. That was the most incompetant design I ever seen in my life - it consumed 5 times the die area, consumed more power and worse of all their design barely even worked. They took a 500K grant from NASA for 2 years and all 4 got their MS degrees based on that crappy work, which an average Indian undergrad student from IIT could’ve done in a month.