Why are there so many Indians in IT?

Question

Freelance

Why are there so many Indians in IT?
By going to foreign freelance exchanges, you can see 80% of all applications for execution from Indians.

Answer 1

Because there are just too many of them in the world.
Or because there are more opportunities to earn money there than in the office (you can draw parallels with Ukrainians and Russians: among my remote work colleagues, there have always been more Ukrainians than Russians).
Fortunately, Indians rarely go beyond junior skills, so they create competition and interfere with dumping only for those who are at the beginning of their careers.

Answer 2

The commercial IT industry in India historically began much earlier than in the CIS. In the 80s, they already outsourced and immigrated to the states.
In 1991 in India, the department of electronics did a great job and reformed the IT industry, which by that time already existed.
In 1991, he founded STPI, a public corporation that dealt with the issue of exporting IT services abroad (consulting, development, integration) at a level previously inaccessible to private companies for all registered engineers and companies. There were STPI offices in all major cities in India. Satellite Internet was offered to private companies for remote work. Since 1994, private companies could even get their own satellite Internet.
The level of work was high - the customer could simply contact STPI and get engineers of almost any level for himself. With certificates, with guarantees and so on.
Nowhere in the world at that time was there such state support for the development of the IT sector as in India.
Well, now, 2018, it's already almost 30 years of experience in development, support, development, and of course people with their knowledge.
* General education in India for decades now includes much more adequate basic knowledge of computer science than in the CIS, where the average computer science teacher does not always distinguish Linux from Windows.
* For those who are interested, there are many educational institutions with decent programs
* The population of India is very large, the salary of an IT specialist is much higher than the average for the country.
Well, "bad Hindu code" - because, like everywhere else, everything is breaking in IT, so if you want to hire a cheap Indian, you will get a macaque. If you want to hire a normal Indian - pay ... still not too much - much cheaper than an American or a European.

Answer 3

1) India is the second country in the world in terms of population (1.3 billion people). It lags behind China slightly (in China, 1.4 billion people). And then there is Pakistan, where there are also a lot of IT people. And they are often confused with Indians. And until 1947, Pakistan and India were part of the British Empire. This is to some extent an artificial division. Further: in total, 7.6 billion people live on earth. Human. Therefore, every 5th person on this planet is Indian or Pakistani.
2) There are many languages ​​in India. Including, and extremely dissimilar to each other. When India gained independence from the British Empire in 1947 (by the way, that's when Pakistan was separated), the problem arose - in what language to communicate on state issues. It has been proposed to use Hindi as the most widely spoken language in India, but still Hindi is not native to the vast majority of Indians - and speakers of other languages ​​were outraged. We decided, temporarily, to use English as well. Yes, it is still used today. In India, English proficiency among more educated people is very high. Do not compare with the former USSR. Teaching in universities is increasingly in English. Therefore, there is no language barrier in international communication.
3) In Indiaa long time ago, emphasis was placed on the cultivation (training, education) of IT specialists. There are entire cities where IT specialists are city-forming.

Answer 4

Because there are more than one billion of them in the world

Answer 5

lack of options for earning money, poverty.
like Belarus - only 100 times more in population.
Accordingly, there are more Indians freelancing than Belarusians every 100 times.

Answer 6

Solve the problem. Four people with the same amount of knowledge came to you to get a job.

• One of them is white, with an overestimated FPV, requested a salary of $ 8300 per month.
  
• The second of them, an African American, always whining about inequality, asked for $5,400.
  
• The third, with a sense of his own pride of the Slavic-Aryan tribes, demanded $2,900.
  
• And the last, disenfranchised person of color willing to work for food 24/7 ($1000 per month).
  

The question is, which one will you hire?
My answer is the last one :)

Answer 7

many do not like them, yes, you are not alone.