[blueriver]

This may ensure their jobs for the short term, but it also hampers efficiency, the Indian engineers are really anal about documentation, they usually document every little detail of a project to death, but it helps.

Now I have heard everything. Most Indian software engineers on H-1B visa's can hardly even send email without major grammatical errors. A lot of good companies are ISO certified and require documentation as a part of the engineering process. Writing documentation is always a scheduled item and if a manager does not want it done then it does not get done and vice versa.

[ComputationalComplexity]

The question is what kind of documentation. Alot of engineers turn out docs that cannot be used to later enhance or modify the software that they wrote, its just self preservation, this is also true for most domestic consultant companies. They deliver docs, but its meant to satisfy computer-illiterate managers, not the engineers.