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There's some truth to this article but it's overtly racist by generalizing "all" Indians to be this way. I've had Indian friends and co-workers over the years o

There's some truth to this article but it's overtly racist by generalizing "all" Indians to be this way. I've had Indian friends and co-workers over the years openly admit that this happens, and that they hate it. It's a side effect from hiring people from a culture with a caste system. What should we do about it? No idea. A good start would be only allowing a certain percent of hires from each country through the H1B program. You can create a curturally mixed team without denying any visas.

strikelaserclaw 7y ago
Or have hiring practices where an applicant gets a random team in the org that interviews them first and they are hired based on a committee, kind of like google, that way you avoid these type of problems for the most part.
- nullwasamistake 7y ago
  I applaud Google for this, I was thinking about their policy while reading the article.
carlmr 7y ago
In my previous company we had one Indian employee. He had been in the company for years and did very solid work. When my boss hired another Indian group manager, he assigned the employee in question to that guys project. First the new group manager was not shaking hands with him, not communicating with him properly etc. We found out that the previous employee was from a lower caste, and that the new group manager refused to work with him. The group manager was then fired. However this requires that the person in charge actually nips this kind of behaviour in the bud. And the group manager had a 15 year career in a very big company. So apparently he could do what he did without a problem for 15 years. Of course the other employee (that we kept) was not happy about this "system".
- throwaway6502 7y ago
  > First the new group manager was not shaking hands with him, not communicating with him properly etc. Yeah - and for an American this is just the weirdest thing ever. I struggle with this a lot and have been told to not equate it with racism - but what the hell is it otherwise?
  - 0815test 7y ago
    Well, I don't know about 'racism' but assuming that the behavior was accurately reported, it is prejudice, and fairly blatant discrimination. I don't think people should get to be immune to criticism simply because of their race or any such characteristics, that just doesn't seem right to me.
    - throwaway6502 7y ago
      You're 100% right - and it's just semantics. It's just that I feel the R-word carries so much more weight on how we're judging something. When I hear people talk down on other people like that I have the same physical reaction of unease in my stomach that I have with the classic "brown people are bad" American racism that I was taught to fight.

strikelaserclaw 7y ago

Or have hiring practices where an applicant gets a random team in the org that interviews them first and they are hired based on a committee, kind of like google, that way you avoid these type of problems for the most part.

nullwasamistake 7y ago
I applaud Google for this, I was thinking about their policy while reading the article.

carlmr 7y ago

In my previous company we had one Indian employee. He had been in the company for years and did very solid work. When my boss hired another Indian group manager, he assigned the employee in question to that guys project. First the new group manager was not shaking hands with him, not communicating with him properly etc. We found out that the previous employee was from a lower caste, and that the new group manager refused to work with him. The group manager was then fired. However this requires that the person in charge actually nips this kind of behaviour in the bud. And the group manager had a 15 year career in a very big company. So apparently he could do what he did without a problem for 15 years. Of course the other employee (that we kept) was not happy about this "system".

throwaway6502 7y ago
> First the new group manager was not shaking hands with him, not communicating with him properly etc. Yeah - and for an American this is just the weirdest thing ever. I struggle with this a lot and have been told to not equate it with racism - but what the hell is it otherwise?
- 0815test 7y ago
  Well, I don't know about 'racism' but assuming that the behavior was accurately reported, it is prejudice, and fairly blatant discrimination. I don't think people should get to be immune to criticism simply because of their race or any such characteristics, that just doesn't seem right to me.
  - throwaway6502 7y ago
    You're 100% right - and it's just semantics. It's just that I feel the R-word carries so much more weight on how we're judging something. When I hear people talk down on other people like that I have the same physical reaction of unease in my stomach that I have with the classic "brown people are bad" American racism that I was taught to fight.