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by thisGuysAccount 4237 days ago
What makes so many Indian shops terrible places to work?
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Indian employers and bosses often raise their status by disrespecting and imposing onerous work requirements on their underlings.

A few years ago I worked at a place with a lot of mechanical turks - ladies tagging pictures day in and day out. The expectation they had, and which took me a while to break, was that they were to be subservient. Make me tea, not speak up when I make a mistake, etc. They all considered it unusual that I would engage with them socially, share lunch, or laugh when they played pranks on me.

In software the situation is certainly getting better. In the past few years, I've run into considerably more places that seem like good places to work. Some foreign shops with a local presence, and a number of startups. But being a good place to work and treating employees with respect is still a big competitive advantage in hiring.

Many folks in India are used to working far harder than Westerners. So we call it a sweatshop; they call it a day at the office.