Dude, Did I Steal Your Job? Debugging Indian Computer Programmers

By N. Sivakumar

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975514008
• ISBN13: 9780975514009
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Divine Tree
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

An economic lesson for Lou Dobbs

Sivakumar has given an Economics 101 lesson to Lou Dobbs and others on free trade, in a language a 5 year old can understand. Whether you agree with Lou or not, read this book. This unknown author has done a marvelous job of mixing a very serious issue with a great presentation you would have never come across or read before.

excellent book on immigrant programmers

An excellent book on the facts of how much Indian immigrant programmers contributed to the growth of American economy, jobs and technology leadership. It is an eye-opener for everyone who bashes the Indian programmers for their job losses. Personally as an Indian immigrant, It reminded me the amount of resources/money Indian tax payers spent on me for my education and my responsibility to give back something to the community.

A Very Balanced Book

Using humor as an effective platform, Sivakumar conveys facts without emotion. There are many mis-conceptions about outsourcing and offshoring and Siva effectively explains the journey very well. In a global world, where value for money counts, I guess offshoring provides not only cost effective solutions for the world marketplace, but also wakes up the Indian economy which in turn buys products and technologies made in the US. Thats a 1.2 billion people economy which holds virtually infinite growth potential.

Interesting views and honest.

My general impression on this book is that it is honest, absorbing and deeply thought out. The flow of the book and the different type set makes this book easy to read and kept me intensely interested even though I felt at times that the author deviates from the message he wants to deliver. The first chapter is very funny and honest and at least parts of it reflect similar events experienced by me personally. Of particular interest were some of the views that the author has expressed (that I never thought about) on the benefits derived by U.S. from immigrant programmers (and vice versa). They include, -- Jump start of U.S. economy and the IT industries in early 90's thus creating a huge job market, which many enjoys now. -- Major innovations and successful entrepreneurs in IT and other industries that helps U.S. to be the market leader in the world. -- Extremely minimal spending by U.S. government on education and experience gained by each immigrant prior to start working in U.S. -- Huge amount (105 billion per year!!) of spending by immigrants that helps to sustain the economic growth and the amount of money that the US saves in the form of social security deductions. Comparison of American and Indian programmers sounds fair and I certainly agree with the author's statement "A good programmer is a good programmer irrespective of his or her origin". Initially I felt if why the author should care to address some of the comments by fellows who spew their venom at immigrant programmers when the author (or myself) does not see any truth in them. The author could have completely ignored the baseless hatred comments. But by observing the fact that those comments are read by hundreds of thousands of people and might possibly spread the hatred unnecessarily, I really appreciate the author's effort to address some of the hate comments in a balanced way.

Its a great book, combines serious facts wt light anecdotes

Its a book most people can identify with (especially Indians and programmers). An enjoyable book which presents certain facts that probably never occur to people! The author deals with a very sensitive issue with balance and humor making the reading experience quite enjoyable