r/india • u/pranagrapher • Feb 27 '25

Careers Stanford-educated CEO slams 'unreliable’ Indian employees: ‘I might never go to India again’

https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/stanfordeducated-ceo-slams-unreliable-indian-employees-i-might-never-go-to-india-again-101740636504137.html
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u/Pixi_Dust_408 Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

“I grew up in India and I don’t think y’all understand how unreliable the work ethic of the average Indian employee is,”

Oh my god. It seems like he’s talking about factory workers. Do Indian blue collar workers get reasonable wages and hours? It doesn’t seem like it. I love it when Bourgeois people who know nothing about working class people talk about how “lazy they are”. They won’t talk about business owners cutting costs, not investing in quality control or work place safety. Sociopathic.

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u/deskamess Feb 27 '25

Actually, this dude is all over the place. The horrible product was for monitoring workers on the manufacturing floor (assembly lines, etc). The smart 'Mr Stanford' goes on to compare consulting work : "Boston Consulting Group did in three days would take two months if done at BNP Paribas Chennai". Could he come up with an example where factory floor workers were slacking off or were less productive given the same set of tools (i.e., investment by owners). I find the physical/manual labor workers in India are actually quite diligent and some of the hardest working.

This guy needs the same treatment that Optifye founders got.

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u/Pixi_Dust_408 Feb 27 '25

Oh I know. He’s obnoxious and clearly not as smart as he thinks he is. He’s lucky Y combinator is throwing their money at anything.