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I (an American) did almost a year as a 'corporate exchange' engineer in one of India's flagship campuses - an area where the young developers were trained, work
by hiram112 10y ago
I (an American) did almost a year as a 'corporate exchange' engineer in one of India's flagship campuses - an area where the young developers were trained, worked, and lived for the early part of their career. Honestly, it was far nicer than the average environment outside of campus so I believe many of the workers felt privileged to be there.
I was older than most of these 'freshers', though, and really began to resent the amount of control the company had over my life 24/7. I don't think it was a matter of nickel and diming the workers on food or other supplies at the company's stores, just that it really blurred the line between work and non-work time and space.
Long story short, I know this experience has really turned me off to offshoring, H1Bs, globalization, guest workers, etc. from places like India. And it has nothing to do with race or religion, but instead what's considered an acceptable relationship between labor and capital.
Silicon Valley / the big tech companies are the biggest abuser of foreign workers (a large majority from India). I don't see it as a good thing for US companies to be building out living spaces for their employees as is done in places like India or China, even though I'm sure Google would build very nice and convenient apartments with all the amenities.
This is definitely a bad thing for the working class. Instead I'd like to see India, China, and the US itself all rise up to the American dream of past decades - ability to support a family, house, cars and kids on one income, with less time devoted to work, as globalism promised.