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All this proves how broken the US education is.

I have worked with many Indian programmers over the years. I only ran into a very small amount who were not brilliant, but were average. The rest where brilliant, and a few I learned some cool tricks from. For young Americans, most were good but none approached the level of smarts most of the Indians I worked with.

The US should send observers over to India and study their education system :)

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The secret is: you see Indians in the US after the huge gruesome filter

For real, as a person who had to sift through entry-level candidates for menial off-shore positions on occasion, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys holds true in pretty much any country

1. start with 1 billion people

2. of the smartest and most motivated people, consider those who are interested in moving to the US

3. allow a tiny percentage of these to do so

This is going to result in you encountering near-uniform brilliant people out of the starting population of 1 billion

This is like going to the bio tech department of a top university in the US and being so impressed with the people there that you conclude that all Americans are amazing at bio tech.

The Indian education system is spectacularly bad. Indian programmers do well despite the education system, not because of it.

You are seeing the best of the best who come over here and or have families with money to support it.

This message itself should be in the curriculum to teach people about selection bias.

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