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India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers
MaximusTheGreat writes: "IHT and Financial Express report that many qualified Western professionals are moving to India for jobs. Two of the most common reasons mentioned are adding the Indian experience to the CV and search of better opportunities in a booming Indian economy. According to a Mumbai based head hunting firm, "A lot of the highly qualified talent has traditionally been mobile and attracted to centers of excellence globally. This was true of the US in the early 80s when top flight talent from India migrated in search of better opportunities. Today, the same is happening to economies such as India and China" This should also bust the myth that foreigners are not allowed work in India."
The task of getting first post has been outsourced to India.
I fear that OSS is soon going to force all programming jobs to move to India. Since OSS companies typically make far less profit than real commercial software companies do, they cannot afford to hire decent programmers. So they'll outsource to India, for 10 dollars an hour. Furthermore, by using underhanded tactics like "borrowing" Unix code, they'll beat their commercial competitors -- and the commercial companies will either be forced to open source, or go out of business. I'm not trying to say that OSS is bad, or it should be banned, but some kind of regulation should be put in place to ensure that the majority of software in use is still good old fashioned commercial software.
Have you ever wondered why all the IT jobs are being outsourced to India? Really, I find it hard to believe why people question this growing trend. Is it not obvious?
Indians are by nature better programmers. For one, they never have to deal with type casting erros -- they never forget to caste!
...if the jobs can go to India, it would make sense that the workers can too.
;)
Someone told someone whose job was outsourced to "think outside the box", and look what happened.
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Maybe Northern India, where its not so hot;
but Southern India... where it gets up to 45'C...
My brain, like any normal supercomputer, functions best at low temperature.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
I hope that this trend does not continue
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Just curious, is there any outcome to any situation that will not cause mass hysteria among the
People come to the US looking for jobs..PANIC!!!! People leave the US looking for jobs...PANIC!!! President tries to solve this problem by trying to kill all those annoying foreigners...PANIC!!!
Jeez, I feel for you people
Whatever you say, Mr. Eau de Rancid Big Mac.
KFG
Livin' on the bleeding edge of technology!
Who's with me?
We start a hippie commune in India, we would be self sufficient in terms of agriculture and utlities, living by LGPL (we do need to be able to make a living) ideals, religion tolerant, and we could try and land a lot of the US outsoursed contracts...
Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
Should I speak any Indian languages?
Yes. English. This could prove a significant barrier to Americans.
KFG
here are a few things that are taken for granted in the West, which aren't as easy to get there.
like maybe having your parents ship you a burger in the mail once in a while
I suppose they might haze the new guy by telling him to learn the Hindi for "foo".
I know I would.
Hmmm....
..... Hobbit?
Bare feet.. New Zealand... Stropping about...
Sir, are you, by any chance, a
Nuf sed
Table-ized A.I.
You're saying that they're just trying to curry favor?
And everything will go back to Europe/US where political instability is more civil.
Next on CBS Reality Thusday: Extreme Internships- India.
Watch Jack edge out Ganaraj with his sharp mastery of the english language and superior problem-solving skills. Will Sharon become the next IT manager, or will Mahakanta beat her to it with her better memorization skills?
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.