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Comment by tn13 | Hacker News Reader

You are an Indian who has just finished your MS in Stanford. To get a job now you compete in a lottery which puts you and a software donkey from TCS with a degree from pretentious engineering college at the same odds.

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How is this tripe modded up? A software donkey? Has it ever occurred to this guy that he is talking about another human being? And has history belonged to only those who passed through the hallow halls of Stanford? WTF?

I don't appreciate this sort of language used in HN either, moderators need to down-vote this comment heavily.

I have do not mean to disrespect any human being sir. (Also, I think I should apologize for using a specific company name in my comment but please read it only as Company X). To be more clear I belong to one such companies which is sending large number of H1B guys to US. When H1B visa is over its the turn of B1 Visa.

H1B visa is for specially skilled people who are in short supply in US. Most of the people including me in reality have no "special" skill that is in short supply in US.

We come here to US and paid enough just to survive + Indian salary.

I know a lot of smart engineers from TCS who couldn't imagine doing an MS from the US (or for that matter even from India), because their family couldn't afford it. People who do not aspire to do an MS from Stanford certainly do not qualify being a "software donkey".

PS: No affiliation with TCS or Stanford other than having met smart people from both places.

I know a chinese Bus driver who plays better Golf than Tiger Woods but because he was poor he could not become a professional golfer. Now that reason does not matter nor the smartness. What matters is their current state. A TCS employee no matter how smart he is has very little positive impact on economy than an average Stanford graduate. TCS employee coming to US on H1B is less likely to create/contribute in building another Billion dollar company than say a Stanford graduate.

There will be "Good and Donkey Engineers" everywhere. Doing MS from stanford(assuming you are not lying) did not stop you from being a donkey here. :)

There is no such claim in my comment.

This guy cannot be from Stanford.

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