My neighbors all have extremely nice cars. Tesla P100D, BMW M3 and M5, tons of Mercedes and Porsche. A lot of the non-Indian devs at my work drive beaters and live in the shitty apartments (many are pushed into contractor positions that pay <$40/hr while Prajeet gets the $300k TC FTE positions). More and more of my coworkers are Indian (> 2/3 of my team is) and they are insufferable. Guess who is stuck unfucking a lot of the issues...
It’s quite clear who earned their degrees and who bought them. A lab manager should understand basic networking, how to wire up devices like KVM switches, PDUs, cable up a server and drop a few NICs in it, install whatever distribution of Linux they need and make sure things are functional. Many of them don’t understand how to SSH into a machine. I’ve encountered people who call themselves Linux sysadmins but NEED to use a graphical user interface or they are absolutely lost. These are things that someone from a tech school knows how to do very early on (or can be easily figured out by playing with the hardware and software) - yet somehow the brilliant lab manager we paid a lot to bring here doesn’t understand the basics of.
Also, cheating is extremely rampant with H1B workers - there’s a whole industry based around it. When your software engineer who is supposedly a genius on paper doesn’t understand basic things such as version control, how to properly utilize certain tools, can’t comment their code and blatantly rips code off from forums... it makes you wonder why they are paid so much (and the TC is unreal for some of them).
There’s also this whole caste system that goes on in these companies that carries over - caste bias is real and it is not hidden at all. Certain castes tend to fly up the corporate ladder while you can tell who gets the work piled on them with zero chance of really moving up. While HR will fuck someone’s life up for a minor infraction, they will never get involved in a caste system issue (because to woke liberal Becky in HR, all the Indians are the same). That’s how you see certain Indian employees do a ton of work, prove their competence yet not move around much, while other employees who you wouldn’t trust to plug a computer into an outlet (who in conversation seem extremely lost) move into higher and higher management positions.
You can kind of tell who is a Dalit (untouchable) by how the team members speak of them. The employee can be a rockstar in their work and put in more work than their coworkers, but when you bring them up in conversation you tend to hear a change in coworkers voices (or an audible sigh). At least where I work, if you look up a surname such as Sharma (Brahmin) or Ghosh (Kshatriyas), you’ll see that they tend to fall higher on the Org Chart than someone with the name Patel (Shudra).
Yup.
My neighbors all have extremely nice cars. Tesla P100D, BMW M3 and M5, tons of Mercedes and Porsche. A lot of the non-Indian devs at my work drive beaters and live in the shitty apartments (many are pushed into contractor positions that pay <$40/hr while Prajeet gets the $300k TC FTE positions). More and more of my coworkers are Indian (> 2/3 of my team is) and they are insufferable. Guess who is stuck unfucking a lot of the issues...
What makes them insufferable? Just curious.
It’s quite clear who earned their degrees and who bought them. A lab manager should understand basic networking, how to wire up devices like KVM switches, PDUs, cable up a server and drop a few NICs in it, install whatever distribution of Linux they need and make sure things are functional. Many of them don’t understand how to SSH into a machine. I’ve encountered people who call themselves Linux sysadmins but NEED to use a graphical user interface or they are absolutely lost. These are things that someone from a tech school knows how to do very early on (or can be easily figured out by playing with the hardware and software) - yet somehow the brilliant lab manager we paid a lot to bring here doesn’t understand the basics of.
Also, cheating is extremely rampant with H1B workers - there’s a whole industry based around it. When your software engineer who is supposedly a genius on paper doesn’t understand basic things such as version control, how to properly utilize certain tools, can’t comment their code and blatantly rips code off from forums... it makes you wonder why they are paid so much (and the TC is unreal for some of them).
There’s also this whole caste system that goes on in these companies that carries over - caste bias is real and it is not hidden at all. Certain castes tend to fly up the corporate ladder while you can tell who gets the work piled on them with zero chance of really moving up. While HR will fuck someone’s life up for a minor infraction, they will never get involved in a caste system issue (because to woke liberal Becky in HR, all the Indians are the same). That’s how you see certain Indian employees do a ton of work, prove their competence yet not move around much, while other employees who you wouldn’t trust to plug a computer into an outlet (who in conversation seem extremely lost) move into higher and higher management positions.
You can kind of tell who is a Dalit (untouchable) by how the team members speak of them. The employee can be a rockstar in their work and put in more work than their coworkers, but when you bring them up in conversation you tend to hear a change in coworkers voices (or an audible sigh). At least where I work, if you look up a surname such as Sharma (Brahmin) or Ghosh (Kshatriyas), you’ll see that they tend to fall higher on the Org Chart than someone with the name Patel (Shudra).
That was informative. Thank you.