Why dont you take a hike before being writing something which is far from truth..read about IIT and see what even foreign scholars say about it.

Guys like you who start ridiculing India and the aspects of it the moment they take their flight out need a bit of more education rather.

For the record, I am not IITian but I am proud that IIT is showing way to world how technology is harnessed for mankind and not just lured by greedy and instincts of MS and Co.

You better settle in America..India is better off without people like you.

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My close relative was working with a multinational manufacturing company in a very good role. He had been with the company for more than a decade, and had excellent career prospects there. Although he had no background in software development, HCL wooed him a huge pay packet and promises of complete training in a software package designed for the manufacturing sector for which they were expecting an order. (This was sometime in Nov, when recession had already started) My husband joined, there was no training and no project (The project got delayed due to the recession) and six months down the line, he was forced to resign saying that he had no software development skills, and hence it would be difficult to fit him elsewhere!

The gall of these people! Why recruit when you have no clear idea of what you want?? Do you have any idea at all how much of anxiety and pain you have caused to families of employees who have been laid off?

And to top it all, This fellow Vineet goes around claiming there’s been no layoffs in HCL!

This company stinks, and Nayar is an even bigger stinker who has no right to go about commenting on anybody’s employability till he takes a good hard look at his own ethics!

Come on. That’s like saying “If America has an obesity problem then how come Lance Armstrong exists?”

==>Not so. It’s more like saying If America has a problem with MARATHON ATHLETES then how come Lance Armstrong exists?

The athletes are a welcome contrast to America’s obesity problem for sure, but you have to use a comparable correct analogy. The USA school system today is for sure sorely handicapped, but there are still some shining techs..

I agree with you that CS departments would never have a technology oriented course development. Mr Nayar fails to understand that. And it’s no different in a good majority of the Indian colleges.

The methods of teaching, the rigor and the analysis involved, coupled with the expertise of the teacher themselves make a huge difference. However, the students who are really interested in learning computer science do come out with amazing knowledge.

Thanks for your comment.

Thanks for your comment. I am sure that was meant to be funny. Pardon my slow brain, however, I really didn’t get the analogy =)

By the time we spec’d out the programs/reports/changes to the degree where we’d get something back we could use without exhaustive modification or correction, we were better off writing it ourselves and keeping it mum from management. Very frustrating. High turnover at the Indian company, poor language skills and slam-it-in coding techniques with no thought of the big picture.

I can relate to that.

At the same time, as I am going through the thread and posting, it’s wrong to generalize us Indians as well. We are definitely good at creative thinking. We provide innovative solutions and most definitely have good language skills. I am a proud Indian myself.

If the situation is different in India, then perhaps this is what Mr. Nayar means.

Come on. That’s like saying “If America has an obesity problem then how come Lance Armstrong exists?”

I googled and reached Vineet Nayar’s blogpost on this subject http://vineet.hclblogs.com/ .