“But, the Indians work and study harder. In fact, many of the Indian schools are better than US schools. Guess what? The Indians study management too. I think it’s time to hire Indian execs at 1/4 of the rate of pay of American execs.”
Yeah, the old myth, perpetuated by management and corporate interests, that Indians are super-intellectual hyper-workers. HORSESHIT! I’ve worked with many of them at IBM and they’re no smarter, better educated or harder working than Americans. They’re cheaper though!
Indians are not that great when it comes to communication. There is also that problem of them disappearing if someone offers them more money. When I worked on a project with them, they were good programmers but the functional staff complained constantly about the language barrier. It was not worth the savings. When the guy disappeared from our team, we had to spend time figuring out what he was doing.
People started insisting that all communication be done by email. That really irritated the Indian guys.