[AmericanInTokyo]

What is interesting is that the number of graduating elite IT-background young management and specialists in India coming out of the IITs (India Institutes of Technology) are increasingly saying they will stay in India for their careers, rather than going to the American Dream. The numbers are going down more and more it seems.

[snippy_about_it]

Hmmm. We get new H1b folks at our place almost every week. No slow down here. They may know there tech but there english communication is very lacking.

[proxy_user]

“What is interesting is that the number of graduating elite IT-background young management and specialists in India coming out of the IITs (India Institutes of Technology) are increasingly saying they will stay in India for their careers, rather than going to the American Dream. The numbers are going down more and more it seems.

You can’t touch IIT types for under $150K plus bonus.

The corporate programming outsourcing is done by high-school grads who have taken a two-week training course.

[Cronos]

Also, note, another thing is that IIT's don't only produce CompSci programmers -- in fact, they produce engineers (and as a mech engineer myself, I'd always point out the difference: Wikipedia admits to a blurred line between the two - but primarily defines software engineering as: "the profession concerned with creating and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains, and other fields." and a programmer as: "someone who programs computers.... a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software.")

back to my point -- IIT's churn out mechanical, chemical, aeronautical, auto, medical, construction, civil engineers as well as comp engineers. The difference is that until recently the best paying jobs in India were in computer programming.

But now, India's industries are picking up -- it's rapidly becoming a small car building hub and it's engineers in mech, chemical, telecom etc. are going places. Soon, they would be getting a lot of opportunities in the construction space as India is ramping up it's run-down or non-existent infrastructure.

The net result is that the most brilliant minds aren't necessarily going into Programming in India, so the available pool of resources is dwindling.

[Non-Sequitur]

What is interesting is that the number of graduating elite IT-background young management and specialists in India coming out of the IITs (India Institutes of Technology) are increasingly saying they will stay in India for their careers, rather than going to the American Dream.

They don't have to. The jobs are coming to them, courtesy of the same U.S. companies that used to bring them here.