Why is India not leading the world in technology, engineering, etc.?

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postmortemIA

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DAGTA said:
Have you worked with any India development teams?
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I did, and they are worth exactly what you pay them for. You can get good workers everywhere, but thing is they're going to be expensive.

That 700K number means there are lot of colleges that crank out tech degrees.
 
zinfamous

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postmortemIA said:
I did, and they are worth exactly what you pay them for. You can get good workers everywhere, but thing is they're going to be expensive.

That 700K number means there are lot of colleges that crank out tech degrees.
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boom!
 
Fenixgoon

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there could be a cultural aspect to it as well. western cultures tend to place higher value on the individual than the group.
 
Red Squirrel

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I think they kinda are, along with China? Mind you China is probably way ahead, but India is pretty high up as far as technical related services go. Programming, tech support etc. China makes everything, India supports it. :p
 
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Those 700k grads don't know jack. It is all mugged up knowledge. They can make simple software by themselves. Indian universities suck, even the best of them. And most people there aren't very talented either. There are exceptions. The top 1% are great. The remaining 99% not so much. And those top 1% don't necessarily belong to the best colleges. They are spread out.
 
Jimzz

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India I think is the capital for degree mills. The make the University of Phoenix look like Harvard.

My friend at IBM deals with engineers from India and they say they have to have their hands held on stuff first year grads should know, not "senior" engineers as they are called.
 
JTsyo

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I think it's a historical issue. The Indian educational system was heavily influenced by the British. They didn't need free thinkers, they needed bureaucrats to run the empire. The schools focus more on rote memorization than creativity. I'm sure things are change as the country matures but this is the basis they are beginning from.
 
StrangerGuy

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Because they have a fundamentally unbalanced economy. You can't expect to be like a powerhouse just because you got a few Nobel laureates emerged out of law of large numbers while a huge percentage of that still starves, doesn't have proper toilets and lacks general education etc, it simply doesn't work that way.

If hypothetical sane babies can choose between China or India to randomly born into the existing populace they would take the former in a heartbeat.
 
ultimatebob

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nexus5rocks said:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05/asia/india-jobs-crisis/

700k engineering graduates every year.
Shouldn't all these educated minds be able to do something other than level 1 tech support?
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Many of the smart Indian engineers seem to come to the US on H1-B visas, so they can make over 4 times what they would in India.

Many of the ones who stick around aren't qualified to handle anything more than level 1 tech support.
 
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