Working with Indian in Indian set - up workplace

Working with Indian in an Indian set up is not easy. The work culture lack any ethic values or moral principles you can think of.

 

Most of the people, I would say 88 percent are so conniving, callous, scheming and cunning. I believe its very much the culture. Everywhere human are selfish by nature, but the way the Indian are selfish is that they want to harm you first and foremost, instead of trying to lookout some space for yourself which is very normal and norm in other culture and countries. But no, in Indian work place they will try to harm you first.

They are also insecure lot. And the fact of the matter is they also do not have any life outside work. Other thing they have is just family, not much of entertainment nor friends.

 

They do not like asking question nor they take question easily, either they are getting offended by question or take it personal. They have a herd mentality and everything they heard or get from their boss is accepted immediately and no question ask, no matter what question is. They are difficult to work with, they pretend to know everything. They do not say or want to say they do not know things or understand that they do not know things.

 

As one of tech insurgent blog rightly points out -

"...Indian-based and Indian resources are likewise extremely difficult to work with, and it has nothing to do with language or timezones - they refuse to speak up (from what we're told, "it's cultural", meaning don't make an issue of it or you'll get sent to sensitivity training). A solution can be completely wrong - as in, the contract says we were supposed to start work two months in the past or numbers literally don't add up, yet they won't question blatant errors, and won't respond if you question them. Apparently questioning someone else is deeply frowned upon, and makes them next to useless as anything but strict, brainless order takers. They have no initiative whatsoever, and seemingly no capability of independent creative thought. Maybe it's "cultural", maybe it's poor training - I don't know." http://techinsurgent.com/post/2010/03/13/IBMer-Indians-Are-Reviled.aspx

 

(ps - I like the above blog, all so true, mort articles in the blog are hit nail right at the head)