In my experience, young people from India are smart, dutiful and diligent, respectful, and willing to work for less money in order to have a chance to prove themselves.
(All qualities that seem to have been spoiled-out of a lot of American kids.)
All the ones I worked with would sleep at their desks. Laziest gang of arrogant creeps I ever worked with.
F U. We imported these racists with H-1B visas and traitorous bastards made money back stabbing Americans.
According to a dear friend of mine in IT, that is the behavior of hires from India and China who were hired LONG AGO.
The present day hires are NOT AT ALL LIKE THAT.
Furthermore, they tend to be lazy, and want to go back to their home countries for weeks at a time.
At one meeting, a supervisor suggested that if IT could get along well without them for weeks at a time, their value was questionable. My thoughts...a good point.
Who knew that the takeover would be so complete and so devasting to our home grown work force.
Can we do something about it now.
YES.
I was an engineering manager, engineering degreed myself, and I had between 35-40 engineers of all education flavors (BS, MS and PhD). Also had between 3-5 Indian educated promisers, who promised the world to get hired but spent all their time working on gaming the system here. They got here by rote memorization and cutthroat competition in their own country. Their innovation skills were lacking, their drive was misplaced and their acceptable worthwhile follow through was lacking. Not a one of them ever delivered on what they promised. Getting contract work in the unit and continuing it with work enough to support others beyond themselves. Heck, most of them were just overhead drains.
I’ve always thought that the American STEM-educated person (and even some not) is underrated when it comes to rubber on the road. INNOVATION....Innovation borne out of wanting a slicker, easier, faster way - against the fray often times. For all their foibles, hackers and gamers are a good example. Innovation. Can’t learn that by rote and being able to cite Pi to a hundred decimal places doesn’t mean squat.