I've talked with some programmers about this who moved from India to the USA and do excellently there. In their view the problem is the family culture. Since I

I've talked with some programmers about this who moved from India to the USA and do excellently there. In their view the problem is the family culture. Since India is in large parts still very much a developing country and has been for a very long time, they have big families with the expectation that big multi-generational families care for one another as a group. That includes getting jobs, food, etc. So these people grow up being able to ask most of their social circle to help them in some manner and being able to expect to get this help unquestioned. So quite a few indians use family connections to get into IT jobs they have zero qualification for, by being helped by family, acquaintainces, etc. That is why in chat you often see indian developers ask very bluntly for someone to do their job for them. I'm not entirely sure where this "yes" culture comes from, but i suspect it is connected with this knowledge that they don't know anything pairing with the desire to keep the job, because it's not just their income, but their entire family's.