[throwaway43]

I am an Indian developer and I feel that you're onto something there. This needs more discussion.

For eg: An executive an HCL , a leading Indian outsourcing firm called American developers "unemployable" :

>> He says students from countries like India, China, and Brazil are more willing to put the effort into "boring" details of tech process and methodology, such as ITIL, Six Sigma, etc.

http://www.dailytech.com/CEO+of+Microsofts+Indian+Partner+Co...

So basically , American devs want challenging work and technical growth , while Indian devs are happy to even have a job.

[justaman]

There is definitely something to this. From my experience(American), nobody writes their specs.