Indian techies snubbing US jobs to stay home
Summary
Graduates from India's tech institutes say their home country is fast catching up with the United States for the range and quality of career prospects.
Topics
Indian tech graduates are increasingly turning their back on western countries in favor of finding work at home.
Graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology so called 'IITians' told Evalueserve that India was fast catching up with the US for the range and quality of career prospects.
Between 1964 and 2001 the number of IITians staying in India was 65 per cent but this jumped to 84 per cent between 2002 and 2008.
The survey of 667 IITians found this was being fuelled by shifting attitudes, between 1964 and 2001 60 per cent believed developed countries offered the best employment prospects but this fell to 51 per cent between 2002 and 2008, with 49 per cent believing India now offered better opportunities.
Most tellingly, 72 per cent of IITians predicted that in 10 years India would be the country holding the most promise of success, with only 17 per cent choosing the United States and five per cent Europe.
Talkback Most Recent of 136 Talkback(s)
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That's What Locusts Do.
They destroy one place and move on to the next one. Indians destroyed the job market in America and they are moving on to the next place to gut out and leave to die.
johnb999029th Apr 2008 -
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Sounds a lot like modern American corporations too... hmmm guess they learned more from us than programming.
Linux User 14756029th Apr 2008 -
Uh, yeah thats it conspiricy boy..
Our economic troubles are all India's fault.
!?!?!??
If you want someone to blame, then blame Corporate America for outsourcing jobs or American students for not studying as hard as their Asian counterparts.
Also, did you bother to read the story? It said that they weren't moving on to the next place, but were staying and investing in their own country. If anyone is like locust it would be us. As one empoverished nation improves itself enough to invest at home and not choose to do our work, we will move on the next third world country where we can exploit their cheap labor.
Tigertank29th Apr 2008 -
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I do blame corporate America and the current government. But as you astutely pointed out, it's also due to American laziness too! I.E. the lack of student effort to study and excel. Also if you look, I was replying to another post and pointing out an obvious fact.
For that matter the OP is the one you should be addressing not I. Another thing... it's impoverished, not "empoverished". I am well aware of the methods employed by American corporations and how they exploit so as to maximize profits, regardless the cost on human suffering, environmental damage and economic disruption.
What we are seeing in this nation is the economy trying to correct itself after being falsely inflated in value. Look at the housing market as a prime indicator or over-valuation making a correction.
No, I do blame the irresponsible greed of American corporations and the blind ignorance of the American people for the state of our economic affairs. WE made our bed... now it's time to sleep in it.
And it is going to get worse... enjoy your SUV!
Linux User 14756029th Apr 2008 -
A multitude of factors, or at least "the chicken or the egg"
Which was first perceived to start the response, to be perceived as the first?
I think it's more about money than anything else; or people with Masters degrees wouldn't be given the boot...
Besides, in a free market, globalized world, we still can't get drugs from Canada, amongst other things.
In short, nothing adds up. Or, to be cynical, perhaps America is eating its own?
HypnoToad29th Apr 2008 -
And the funniest things is that there are still so many
that are defending their lack of knowledge to the hilt.
"MS is the best", "MS rulez" etc. Yup, they said so on the telly.
I feel for the technologically capable Americans. It's pretty much the same here in the UK. Our leaders, who we have no choice over (what's your favourite colour, Blue, Light Blue or Medium Blue?) haven't the first clue when it comes to the knowledge economy.
And worse still, we have a whole generation of feral youth that could be driving things forwards, but prefer instead to sit their arses and own more technological junk than their neighbours kid.
American investors won't invest in FOSS until it's too late. The rest of the world will swamp the US technologically. Noddyware upon Noddyware just isn't enough.
Did Microsoft kill US capitalism in the knowledge economy, or did US Capitalism kill Microsoft?
Good luck guys.
fr0thy229th Apr 2008 -
Man, your a bone head if wasn't for the US you -
While your obvious ignorance and hate for the US well documented.
You couldn't live in your mother's basement and even be on this Blog if it wasn't for the US. -
- Micro Chip
- Computers
- Internet
- Lights
- Telephones
- Microwave
- Airplane
- Photograph
To name a very,very,very minute list. So keep on hating the US but if it wasn't for us you would probably be speaking German and living in the dark.
So keep pinching yourself and when the UK invents something as earth shattering as the ones above - then you get a tip of the hat until then go crying to the EU and boo-hoo we want to be inventive...boo-hoo
what a schmuck
ItsTheBottomLine30th Apr 2008 -
@BasedonReality
We all know that fr0thy2 is a troll.
Please do not feed him
Maybe he will just go away
fatman6553530th Apr 2008 -
mencrowchip
fENTIUM MOTHER was some dhan or so per gluegull
junkmaster1st May 2008 -
one out of eight....
?. if it wasn't for the US. -
- Micro Chip ? Germany, England
- Computers ? France, England, Germany
- Internet - USA
- Lights - (light bulb ? England; arc lamp ? England & Russia)
- Telephones ? Italy, France, England
- Microwave ? England, Germany
- Airplane ? Greece, Italy, France, England, New Zealand
- Photograph ? France, Germany
One out of eight ? not bad.
Ref: Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica
Chomps5th May 2008 -
Boo Hooo to you
There's a documentry called "ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE". I will suggest you to watch it. ENglish wasn't your language either. Britons brought it to your country otherwise you would be speaking FRENCH, SPANISH or some ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE that no one has ever heard of !!
AND someone else saved me lot of work by educating you about who invented computers and other things that you mentioned in your post you RUDE IGNORANT FOOL!!
Some gifts from Indians :
Number "0" without which nothing can function (NOT EVEN YOUR COMPUTER)
Yoga -WHICH SHAMELESSLY YOU AMERICANS TRIED TO GET PATENT FOR (just like u clamied computers to be yours)
sonusingh27th May 2008 -
ItsTheBottomLine30th Apr 2008
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Well Put fr0thy2
I see your posts in a lot of forums, and don't always like what I see. However, I find you to be spot on this time. Sorry to hear the U.K. is in a similar mire as the U.S.
I have 2 kids, I'm trying to raise them to be part of the solution, they should do pretty well for themselves; as I look around I realize that even if they were only average they would still have no competition. Things are grim.
starcannon99022@...30th Apr 2008 -
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Tigertank my apologies, the page formatting led me to believe you had replied to me. Linux User 14756029th Apr 2008 -
Why aren't American living up to their own potential, as claimed?
And would that include people who had masters degrees, made unemployed by offshoring too?
And, yes, in all things America needs to improve itself. But as we were taught. money is an incentive. Plus, IT was there when manufacturing went elsewhere (much to negative effect, as we could currently conjecture thanks to worldwide reports of recalls of contaminated, toxic, or poorly made products).
Especially when, in high school, everybody wants to be a jock; the nerds and geeks spat on or worse... how's that for a generalization?HypnoToad29th Apr 2008
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