- Joined
- Aug 13, 2020
I think they are, but English ability lets them down. One of my Indian colleagues explained that you first learn a regional language depending on where you are born, then Hindi, and then English, and you pick up very bad habits speaking English amongst people who aren't native English speakers. There is also a problem with the education system which prioritises rote recital of information as opposed to free-form learning or discovery. So basically, the longer someone lives in a western country, the better they are, especially if that was from an early age.I mean this would be less of a problem if they were capable of learning (it ain't so).
I had a colleague once who was Indian but raised in Canada so he was fully bilingual in both English and Hindi and it totally changed the productivity of the team as we could actually tell the offshore teams precisely what they needed to do. Unfortunately I realise now that this made it seem like offshoring worked, and working there was a nightmare after he moved on, so I did so shortly after.