Recruiting programmers in India
There are some Cultural differences to consider before recruiting a techie in India. The first thing in the minds of the Indian middle class:
A Job is a labor which is performed to earn a living.
This is different from what a good programmer views his Job as: a passion which he cannot live without.
This attitude of impassionate living without any risk taking ability has generated a generation of civil servants, doctors and software engineers whose lives are not worth living. They are just mechanical money making machines just operating. Not living. When recruiting, beware of this class. Once you recruit them, they will bring duress and boredom into the workplace. They will kill the creativity and innovation that can happen.
indiWiz.com is Subhash's look on technology. Needless to say, it is highly biased with eccentric opinions. 
Subhash,
I completely agree with what you wrote. That’s why we have the 9-6 approach where you want to (possibly) come by 9 and leave by 6 (of course)
When I’ve worked with teams abroad i’ve noticed that there is difference between our 9-6 and theirs. Especially in TW, where we pair and follow XP (mostly)
In a nutshell with most indian programmers it’s “somehow get the job done” to “hey let’s have some fun and solve this problem” with outsiders
Disappointing yet true
Manish Chakravarty
16 Aug 09 at 1:36 pm