Let's also not forget the bias of Indians only hiring other Indians. There's entire product development teams in the Bay area that are close to 100% Indian. Sorry, I don't buy the excuse that's the only people available to hire. How does this relate to competence and the quality of the engineering work product? Race, gender, age, do NOT matter. So, why the pro-Indian bias?
I've noticed this trend in companies with Indian middle managers who tend to aggressively pursue hiring outsourcing firms (like Accenture) to bring in offshore Indian resources, and the project inevitably fails.
Every time I've seen this, the decisions to hire the outsourcing firm never really made sense, so the easiest guess to make is the managers were receiving some kind of kickback, but we can only guess.
I would hazard to say that it is an Indian cultural thing. But it seems to be a spectrum since I have read accounts that some Indians don't hire Indians who don't belong to the same caste/region/state.
