Re: Must be a coincidence
My experience was quite different. I have never worked for an Indian firm, not for lack of trying. I have had more than a few interviews that ended abruptly after the first question. That question being "what is your visa status." After explaining I have been a citizen since birth, I am awkwardly told they require someone more experienced for the role.
Once I had to take a technical interview. We only got to one question:
Interviewer: How would you recover from a a corruption in your primary domain controller?
Me: I would promote another DC to that role, then wipe and rebuild the one that was corrupt.
I: There is no other DC, only the one
Me: I would restore it from a snapshot or backup
I: There is no backups or snapshot, what would you do?
Me: (jokingly) I reckon I would be looking for another job considering I have not done the basic DR planning and tasks
I: (Not amused)
Me: Ok, I guess the only thing is to do a recovery restoration if not just building a new one outright.
I: That would be the correct answer (the restore/recover feature)
I realized later he was basically reading from the Microsoft certification test. (or at least a study guide)
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Later that year I interviewed with a large and respected accounting firm. Among the things I noticed:
All the wall clocks where on Pune time
The lead was bragging about how his system was so big Microsoft said it was passed the limits of what SQL Server was capable of handling. He did not like me asking if they had plans to migrate to a more capable system.
At the end I was straight up asked what my role on the team would be ("What are you going to do if we hire you:Powershell, database tuning, development, etc") This was hands down the most confusing interview question I have ever heard. The interviewer was visibly frustrated when I asked what role he was hiring for along with a list of my capabilities.
I was later informed they needed someone more accustomed to a fast paced environment.
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Since, I have had the pleasure of working with teams that work directly out of India. I found the management culture to be something like "throw enough bodies at it till it works" if someone couldn't figure it out, it simply got ignored with the hope somebody somewhere would fix it.
I even had a manager describe an engineer's explanation of a problem and fix as "magic." The problem was with a bug in Microsoft Defender that caused it peg the cpu with excessive scans which ran everytime NTFS acls were checked.
Also, everything had to be Microsoft and Microsoft support was heavily relied upon. If it wasn't a Microsoft product, they would ignore it completely.
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I have since steered clear of any recruiters or angencies with a strong H-1B vibe.