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IAS is Indian Administrative Services. It means his dad most likely worked as a top level bureaucrat in the government and was relatively privileged.
by blntechie 7y ago
IAS is Indian Administrative Services. It means his dad most likely worked as a top level bureaucrat in the government and was relatively privileged.
- puranjay 7y ago"relatively" is underselling it. Indian IAS officers are basically modern day nobility.
- dhruvarora013 7y agoThat is definitely an oversell. An entry level IAS officer makes Rs. 56100[1] which is about 800 USD a month. Definitely not an amount to scoff at in India but not even close to a level of privilege that would make you the CEO of a trillion-dollar company. Satya has two advanced degrees from US Institutions and has worked at Microsoft for over 27 years. I think his father has had very little to do with his current stature. [1] https://www.clearias.com/salary-of-an-ias-officer/ https://www.clearias.com/salary-of-an-ias-officer/
- puranjay 7y agoThe original statement was about Nadella's own privileged background. No one is arguing that an IAS officer is more privileged than the CEO of Microsoft. As an aside, salary is just about the worst way to evaluate power and privilege of government officials. By that metric, an AVP at Google is more privileged than the President of the United States.
- telltruth 7y agoGetting education in US as a foreign student from 3rd world country typically requires existence of rich parents.
- kamaal 7y agoThat's like splitting hairs. C'mon. On the job perks include Free accommodation, chauffeured cars, pensions, maids, bribes, pensions, plot buying opportunities in top govt layouts and peons to do everything including for something as simple as forwarding a memo. Heck bribes itself can set your 7 generations for a life time of nobility. There is a reason why people waste years behind cracking these exams.