Dude, Did I Steal Your Job? Debugging Indian Computer Programmers

by N. Sivakumar

The backlash against outsourcing American jobs to countries like India had transformed into an anti-immigrant and anti-Indian atmosphere lately. While looking at outsourcing and high-tech visa programs from a completely different angle --and giving an enjoyable account of Indian programmers -- this book answers, in an extremely balanced way, the following complicated questions that have been raised by many American programmers, talkshow hosts, news anchors and . If outsourcing is inevitable, what’s next for Americans? · Did America really benefit from immigrant programmers? · Was there never a need to bring immigrant programmers to the U.S.? · Are Indian immigrant programmers nothing but corporate lapdogs? · Are Indian programmers dumb as rocks and incapable of thinking outside of the box? · Did Indian immigrant programmers support the September 11th attacks? · Did Americans invent everything that belongs to the computer industry? · Is the Indian education system far below world standards? · Is there an organized Indian mafia in American universities that hires only Indian cronies?

189 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2004

Reviews

[Claire S · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really gained a lot of perspective from this book, it was great for that. I love how he kind of deconstructs each unpleasantness and gets to the basis for people's attitudes and behaviors. Could have used more editing etc.. but was great even so!