Indian engineers becoming backbone of Japan's IT industry

Sunday 08th November, 04:40 AM JST

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Pukey2 at 09:50 AM JST - 8th November

More South Indian food in Japan, please! Sick of the naan and 4 types of curry.

Most educated Indians I've come across here are hard workers, multi-lingual, and very easy to get along with. Unfortunately for them, many soon find out that some people don't want to sit next to them on the trains, how difficult it is to find an apt on their own, how the government is using them as a cash cow to finance the elderly without giving anything back to them, and the list goes on.
Scrote at 12:06 PM JST - 8th November

Big companies are keen on Indian workers because they are cheap. How do their salaries compare with the local average?
DeepAir65 at 04:49 PM JST - 8th November

Those that come over with Indian consultancy companies get very poorly paid by comparison - so it is easy to lure them to your company with an average salary as it will be quite a hike for them, that's what we found anyway.
timeon at 06:02 PM JST - 8th November

there are plenty of Indian postdocs in science research as well. not all of them are top (top goes to US :), but they are good, usually above the Chinese. the advantage is that they are very friendly and nice people. the bad point is their English, but you get used with that in time. we pay them standard (same salary for Indian, Chinese, Japanese or whatever postdoc)
gogogo at 07:16 PM JST - 8th November

Look at the jobs listed on the joblet thing on this site, programmers and IT engineers get paid less than part time english teachers.
imomofo at 10:14 PM JST - 8th November

I read a few years ago that Indians(East) are the highest paid ethnicity in the US, followed by Japanese. I wonder the Indians in jp would be the same, ie highest paid non Jp segment of the workforce. They work hard, a lot are simply really ingenious people and most are really humble modest people as well. Damn, I miss being able to go to India every year.
rdinero35 at 11:22 PM JST - 8th November

I believe 80% of the Indians are working in the IT division of foreign investment banks in Japan. If anyone have little knowledge about the pay standards in investment bank they would agree that in 5 to 6 years time you become a millionaire. Indians repatriate and invest the money in Indian markets and no wonder Indian stock market and real estate is booming. I would describe Indians in Japan as "Low profile, wealthy and smart guys"
motytrah at 02:29 AM JST - 9th November

My first experience with Indian consulting was with one of the biggest Indian Contract Companies (Tata). They said they could provide workers at 1/2 of the price of a traditional contract worker. They said even less if we contracted a woman! Yay for sexism!

My experience is they are mixed bag. You can get some really great resources, but you can also get people who speak good English but are sub par engineers. Maybe 3 out of 10 I would consider good enough.

I actually don't understand why Japan needs Indian workers. In the US we have a shortage of technical workers. I'm not really seeing that in Japan.

I do feel bad for a lot of the Indian workers. They get taken advantage of by the consulting companies and often get a much smaller cut of the money than you would think.
Goodguy at 09:47 AM JST - 9th November

With the high number of Indian IT professionals in Japan, one wonders why there aren't there more Japanese engineers in the field.
DeepAir65 at 12:29 PM JST - 9th November

With the high number of Indian IT professionals in Japan, one wonders why there aren't there more Japanese engineers in the field.

In the world of finance their appears to be very few Japanese programmers - I think mainly because the best jobs are at international companies and they are afraid that their English will not be up to it. International banks would require a good level of English as most of the systems are global, probably originating from the US or UK but now the development will be largely done in India....
as_the_crow_flies at 02:10 PM JST - 9th November

With the high number of Indian IT professionals in Japan, one wonders why there aren't there more Japanese engineers in the field.

Yes, I always wonder about that. Surely there must be good money to be had in becoming an IT specialist here. You'd think it would spur more students to be ambitious and head for the good money. Surely not everyone here fantasizes about being a manga artist, a nail artist, a poodle groomer, a "ground hostess" or a "cake designer".
griff at 02:17 AM JST - 11th November

Unfortunately for them, many soon find out that some people don't want to sit next to them on the trains, how difficult it is to find an apt on their own, how the government is using them as a cash cow to finance the elderly without giving anything back to them, and the list goes on.

i met a number of indians working in the IT biz during my time preparing to leave japan and the above is a disappointing accurate account of there experiences
OneForAll at 09:28 AM JST - 11th November

What an interesting country India is! Went there when I was a programmer in Tokyo. In Japan the programmers I worked with were great people and did their job well. Most speak good English. They are much more docile than American programmers. However, even in English things get misunderstood and requirement gathering can take a bit longer. A 'yes' man does not always ask questions to clarify requirements, which is a required task because even native speakers get things garbled.

You will find many of the IT heads are now of Indian descent. If they put the caste system behind them there are no issues. In any event, it is great to see the peoples of the world working together. India with its young large population is the future.
victimcrat at 07:39 PM JST - 11th November

Think of what the tech boom did for Ireland and then let your imagination try and grasp where India will go.
Belesarius at 11:11 AM JST - 19th November

Wow this is just sad.