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I needed to periodically remind myself that the two best managers I ever had in my 30+ years in IT were both Indian. But the work ethic thing I mentioned came through again and again. And not only in my experience; I took over a project in Windows Mobile at MS working under a manager who told me that what they had gotten from Tata after a year of paying six developers did not even show a window before it crashed and they still demanded to get paid. I did it to completion singlehandedly in four months.

He was pretty disgusted.

Agreed on the women being better workers.

After the dotcom crash when thousands of us were out of work I interviewed for a job paying half what I had been getting, a job I didn't want but out of desperation for the money, and the Indian interviewer was so condescending that I don't exaggerate to say he's lucky to be alive. I hear the same from many, many others.

This guy in 2020 was passionate in his mediocrity, I know no other way to describe it.

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