Some of favorite coworkers have been from India during my career. This includes both their personalities as I got to know them and their demeanor at work. I ha

Some of favorite coworkers have been from India during my career. This includes both their personalities as I got to know them and their demeanor at work. I have worked at Cognizant for just over a year. Though we don't have this problem on my immediate team, it is something we talk about because it's obvious in other teams and as an overall culture at the company. It doesn't seem like overt discrimination (from me and my coworkers limited perspectives). There's a couple factors 1. People hire who they know. About two thirds of the employees are of Indian descent. So on average they hire their friends and former coworkers who are also Indian. 2. Leadership requires the offshore teams to be on every project. This is to keep costs down and because the other lines of business besides their main and original one (staff augmentation) are relatively new. 3. A minority (but not a small one) of Indians really are just blatantly discriminatory.