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Come on what general reputation of incompetence? Just take a look at proportion of indians at top engineering and management positions in Tech Companies. This

Come on what general reputation of incompetence? Just take a look at proportion of indians at top engineering and management positions in Tech Companies. This "meme" is nothing but some racist stereotype pushed by old commenters on Slashdot style website who paint themselves to be next turing award material. Guess what the Market never lies and you get what you pay for! Those who pay the best/most still have large number of indians throughout the hierarchy. So that meme is nothing but outright xenophobia not too different from the ones propagated in past against Italians, Irish, Japanese or Jews.

la_oveja 9y ago
Call it whatever you want, the average indian github account has some of the weirdest shit I've ever seen. Saving stuff to txt instead of database, make download 500kb json on each login, callback hell... I'm sure a proper indian engineer wont do this stuff, but the quantity of indian people who make bad code (and bad english) amazes me.
- denzil_correa 9y ago
  > the quantity of indian people who make bad code (and bad english) amazes me. The quantity of anything in a 1.2Bn people nation will surprise you. The ratio however, is a different point. I'm not saying your conclusions are wrong. I'm just saying that quantity isn't the right factor to draw conclusions. Specially, for a country like India.
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- rishabhsagar 9y ago
  "Saving stuff to txt instead of database, make download 500kb json on each login, callback hell" >> Are you sure you are not suffering from observational bias or some fallacy? With a shit colored lens, I can replicate the same observation for almost any other nationality.
mindentropy 9y ago
The proportion of Indians at the top does not give the right picture. The Market means a lot of things. There might be a market for low cost and cheap things now and a need for high quality later. The current reason for the top management and engineering position just reflects this snapshot. In the dot-com boom the market did not need high quality engineers. As the market matures it needs more and more high quality engineers. Currently it is both a good and bad thing. It will weed out a lot of terrible engineers and the good ones who were obscured by the politics might froth to the top. The bad thing is that a lot of good engineers would simply be phased out of the market in the coming implosion.

la_oveja 9y ago

Call it whatever you want, the average indian github account has some of the weirdest shit I've ever seen. Saving stuff to txt instead of database, make download 500kb json on each login, callback hell... I'm sure a proper indian engineer wont do this stuff, but the quantity of indian people who make bad code (and bad english) amazes me.

denzil_correa 9y ago
> the quantity of indian people who make bad code (and bad english) amazes me. The quantity of anything in a 1.2Bn people nation will surprise you. The ratio however, is a different point. I'm not saying your conclusions are wrong. I'm just saying that quantity isn't the right factor to draw conclusions. Specially, for a country like India.
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rishabhsagar 9y ago
"Saving stuff to txt instead of database, make download 500kb json on each login, callback hell" >> Are you sure you are not suffering from observational bias or some fallacy? With a shit colored lens, I can replicate the same observation for almost any other nationality.

mindentropy 9y ago

The proportion of Indians at the top does not give the right picture. The Market means a lot of things. There might be a market for low cost and cheap things now and a need for high quality later. The current reason for the top management and engineering position just reflects this snapshot. In the dot-com boom the market did not need high quality engineers. As the market matures it needs more and more high quality engineers. Currently it is both a good and bad thing. It will weed out a lot of terrible engineers and the good ones who were obscured by the politics might froth to the top. The bad thing is that a lot of good engineers would simply be phased out of the market in the coming implosion.