| I work for very a famous company in north west part of US. We have a very large number of Indian employees. Most of them are here on the h1b visa. I am from eastern europe, but I have lived in the US for 10+ years now. I joined this company based on its reputation and the impact this company is making on day-to-day basis. Before you brand me as a racist,please hear me out. I work in the engineering department of the company and it is quite expected or in fact a norm now-a-days to expect Indians. I am baffled by their behavior in general, lack of long term vision, speaking in Hindi language regularly. Every single day, there is smell of Indian food in the kitchen on most the floors from 12 to 2. Many people speak while eating, which I sincerely frown upon. Majority of these people are unwilling to listen. It's incredibly hard to convince them that their solution is wrong or doesn't scale or make sense in the long term. It seems to me most of these people started as database or informatica developers and they carry same mindset for every problem at hand. We are doing migration to aws platform right now and one person kept same data warehouse design structure in redshift as if it was oracle.
Majority of the managers are also Indians and unwilling to listen. I now see that most of complexities are artificial and in fact there are no major technical challenges. I think I got hired for a lower position than I deserved. I plan to stay here for a while because I made a big move from the another city. What is effective strategy to deal with Indian people in general? How to convince them and help them understand to listen to others? This is first time I am dealing with majority of Indians even though this is an American company. How did you manage to deal with Indian people? Edit - This is not a troll post. I am genuinely curious. |
We, or our ancestors, were able to assimilate into the US because enough of our society was accepting of people from other cultures, with other social norms, other perspectives, other histories, etc. We're basically all from some other country.
You need to clearly separate ethnicity (cuisine, preferred language) from technical approaches to engineering. In doing so, the way you work with any engineer will be the same, no matter their ethnicity. After all, you'd like them to afford you the same professionalism.