Virtually nobody in the US would be able to distinguish members of different Indian castes. And we don't have castes of our own here. (One can argue that to a d

Virtually nobody in the US would be able to distinguish members of different Indian castes. And we don't have castes of our own here. (One can argue that to a degree race in the US operates a bit like a caste system. And even the most egalitarian people tend to have subconscious biases. But most people denounce the idea of giving people different opportunities based on their ethnic background.) So the only sort of software team that would have roles linked to caste would be one built by an immigrant (or maybe the child of immigrants) of high caste from India. Which is a tiny fraction of the software teams in this country. It is possible that families who were of higher caste back in India tend to have a head start in terms of savings and education when they arrive in the US, but once they get here that wealth and education are the only advantages they keep. Which is not to say they are small advantages. But Americans don't recognize caste. Most US companies would hire a CEO whose family in India was outcaste. And they would do so simply because even if they knew about castes and knew this person's standing among them (which is highly unlikely), Americans don't care one bit about what caste you came from in another country. They only care whether you're the most capable person to do the job. There is arguably a certain amount of classism in Silicon Valley based on wealth and upbringing. And studies recently have shown that class mobility here is worse than it used to be and worse than in other developed countries. But we don't have rigid classes in this country. Americans pride themselves on being egalitarian, even if they don't always live up to that ideal. That said, you'll notice that (for instance) African-American CTOs are vanishingly rare despite African Americans representing about 15% of the country's population. If we really want to be egalitarian, we should be asking ourselves harder why that is and how to fix the underlying inequalities that cause it.