[Lazamataz]

That’s because they hand out engineering degrees and doctorates in India like candy and we import these idiots.

While this is true, I have two observations:

One: Unless the Indian national assimilates to our culture and business customs, they don't do well. The cultural differences are too great.

Two: The Indians I have worked with have been quite skilled, but perhaps this is a minority. I do know that India has very severe corruption problems, so paper credentials are not a useful gauge of their skill.

[Mr. K]

Don’t get me wrong- I have worked with some wonderful and talented people from India- forgive me if I made it sound like 100% of the degreed people from there are useless- that is absolutely not the case.

Just in the last 5 or 10 years- they churned out way to many unskilled, and I have worked with groups of them that clung to each other in a group, refused to share information, and churned out garbage code (like a high-schooler)

When you suddenly double or triple your output of engineers, you get more and more from the lower half of the bell-curve. And in a class full of morons, graded on a curve, even an idiot can get an A.

[9YearLurker]

You’re right, India turns out a lot of highly-skilled engineers, too. It is in part the job of the top Indian outsourcers to skim off the best grads and then give them good further training.

[khelus]

Re: that’s because they hand out engineering degrees and doctorates in India like candy and we import these idiots.

While this is true, I have two observations:

One: Unless the Indian national assimilates to our culture and business customs, they don't do well. The cultural differences are too great.

Two: The Indians I have worked with have been quite skilled, but perhaps this is a minority. I do know that India has very severe corruption problems, so paper credentials are not a useful gauge of their skill.

One: Agreed

Two: Not in my experience. Those skilled are a very small minority. Most couldn't program themselves into or out of a paper bag. I have many friends in the field with the same observation.

Three: On the whole, paid way less than Americans. Have suppressed rates at least by 1/3.
Many morph into illegals. And work the same way the Mexicans do - through companies that vouch for them and sell their services at such a low price, they are subsidized by tax payers with government freebies.

They are very comfortable with government freebies. India is a very socialist, big government, crony 'capitalist' country.

Large corporations love them because they are CHEAP.