Yeah. We are all idiots.
Just keep thinking that.
I’ll take American Engineers over Indian group-think script-hacks, every time.
However ONE thing he said did ring true for me. Today's young kids (and yes, even though I am in my 30s, I can call them “kids”) want to get rich soon.
Even in this recession, we ARE hiring. You would think young kids would develop a work ethic. We are a white collar software company based in Dallas with a Class A office space and the latest in computers and software.
I can hire a 40 year old Software Engineer who may have worked in MFC and does not fully know Dot Net 3.5 but he will work TWENTY times harder than this young punk kid from SMU or UTD who knows Dot Net real well but is an IDIOT and has an attitude and wants 50% raise EVERY quarter!!!!
So my advice to everyone is: Hire an Older American. Someone over the age of 30. Someone who freaking appreciates the job!
Six Sigma? That system is a joke. Don't know what ITIL is.
I have worked with his people. All I can say is, I will take 1 good solid American over 5-10 of his guys.
Out of 15 new grads that I just interviewed, I wouldn't hire even one of them.
They don't want to pay their dues, they want to start at the top. They come in demanding to earn what someone with 10 or 15 years experience is earning with 4 or 5 weeks vacation right off the bat. And them with absolutely no experience at all.
When asked why they feel that they should be compensated in this manner, I'm told that this is what their professors have told them they should be receiving immediately upon graduation.
It's really obscene what they hold as their requirements if they choose your company to go to work for.
What a steaming pile of poo. Indians (among others) work for peanuts, that is why they get the business.
So, if there is a takeaway, Americans have a high standard deviation: the smartest and the dumbest. The Indians have a a very low standard deviation: a few dunces, a few brilliant ones, a sea of mediocre. I definitely do not see what this Indian CEO sees!
I asked one of my Indian friends about this quality problem, and he said that Indians are not allowed to be creative in India. He said they are taught to obey orders and always say yes. He has lived here a long time, and he said he too was that way for the first few years.
As an IT guy I’ve worked with some of the greatest people in the world from India. However, there is nothing hugely different between their people and ours. In fact, the very reason they’re over here (and in Canada) is that they wanted to get rich!!!
Quite frankly, this guy reminds me sooo much of some of the IT managers I’ve worked for.... IT management here is usually done by non-IT people. Most of the managers in IT management position have no clue how to do the job of their subordinates, and many barely know how to use their Blackberry. What they DO know is stuff like ITIL, Six Sigma, endless standup meetings, mind-numbing project plan meetings (ending up with project plans that are promptly ignored), etc.
So let me ask Microsoft and HCL — was Microsoft built on processes and SixSigma, or was it built on people who dreamed of the “next big thing”? Weren’t there tons of old mainframe companies who were big on process and procedure and quality programs? Wasn’t HP looking for the “next big thing” when they in their glory days, and weren’t big on process and ISO/QS as they went into the dumpster? Shall we even discuss the demise of EDS, a company that couldn’t use enough corporate buzzwords and quality programs and processes?
Some of the latest imports from there have not been too hot either.
I think we took the cream of the crop and the outsourcing crop is not looking so good.
I do like their tech support, though. Vijay has learned how to clearly say in Indglish, “Firstly, please to reformat you hard driver then be calling back me in one week please.”
Here's a interesting article I recently read... probably was posted on FR:
Consider This -- Henry Ford's Proven Lessons for American Industry
I will say this, though... I was MORTIFIED by the calibre of "engineers" my ABET-accredited university was turning out. I had girls in my technical drawing class that could not figure out for the life of them how to put together a simple isometric drawing given views from 3 sides. I had guys in my Mechanical Laboratories that could not figure out how to read a vernier scale on a micrometer... I'd say half the students had NO F'ING CLUE how to assemble a free body diagram, let alone do shear and bending moment diagrams for a simply supported beam with a point load at mid-span.
...and these people took jobs after college working for the US Army designing munitions? God help us.