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Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable"
theodp writes "When questioned about his firm's US hiring, Information Week reports that Vineet Nayar, the CEO of the Indian outsourcing giant HCL Technologies, showed he can stereotype with the best of them, telling an audience in NYC that most American tech grads are 'unemployable.' Explaining that Americans are far less willing than students from developing economies like India, China, and Brazil to master the 'boring' details of tech process and methodology, the HCL chief added that most Americans are just too expensive to train. HCL, which was reportedly awarded a secretive $170 million outsourcing contract by Microsoft last April, gets a personal thumbs-up from Steve Ballmer for 'walking the extra mile.' Ballmer was busy last week pitching more H-1B visas as the cure for America's job ills at The National Summit."
The only things I saw come back from India were excuses, delays and weak attempts at acting as though they knew what they were talking about.
Unfortunately, this is largely true. I often hear Indian, Asian and Chinese people carp at Western work practices, particularly our relatively short working hours. They usually have to shut up, though when it's pointed out that we actually get more done in those hours than they do in their longer day.
The CEO in the submission might be right about Westerners being unemployable under their conditions, but it seems simple enough to me: if all you want to pay is a monkey's wage, then all you'll get is a monkey.
There are plenty of American workers Microsquish could hire. Microsquish just wants to pay shit-penny wages for shit-penny code from shit-penny Indians.