[naruvimama]

I worked for an Indian IT services company wayback in 2006, I think the culture comes from American companies. American managers want offshore managers reporting to them and not engineers and would pay top dollar for it.

Companies reacted by promoting toadies to be managers with good salaries and paid little to the engineers who did all of the work.

Gate keeping by said managers also helps with miscommunication. Then came the MBA rush too. If only they focused on paying people who did a good job, instead of paying per head/degree/title.