I've worked with 10 Indian employees that could easily be replaced with a single competent westerner (of any descent whatsoever) for 1/3 the price.
I suspect I'm not alone.
I suspect I'm not alone.
Just because you might have had exposure to some idiots does not mean you label the whole bunch as incompetent.
It's a cultural difference: in India, people become engineers because it carries prestige. They don't code because they love computing (this is measurable: ask how many outsourced engineers have GitHub accounts). The lack of actual interest in their profession demonstrates itself in their work.
The best Indian programmers I've met have either left India or weren't born there in the first place, in either case I'd consider them westerners.
Funny. IIRC, in One Night @ The Call Center, Indian call center employees are told that a 35-year-old American has the intelligence of a 10-year-old Indian. Ouch.
> are you saying they were incompetent because they were Indians?
Quite obviously not.