Tech talents from India, other countries leaving Silicon Valley

aden123 · Post by **aden123** » Wed May 11, 2011 9:54 am

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-05-10-tech-talents-leave-silicon-valley_n.htm

PeterGriffin · Post by **PeterGriffin** » Wed May 11, 2011 6:08 pm

Did you read the comments below the article? It sums up what the readers think about the article! :)

b2blr · Post by **b2blr** » Thu May 12, 2011 7:32 am

PG - thanks for the heads-up to read the comments. O.M.G. unbelievable. :-)

okonomi · Post by **okonomi** » Thu May 12, 2011 7:54 am

The comments are typical of the genre that IEEE had been putting out for the past 3 decades. Nothing new in there.
http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/issues/immigration/

ahirman · Post by **ahirman** » Thu May 12, 2011 8:43 am

Funny no comments are related to the topic of the article. Am I missing something?

There is one flamer in the comments section who is posting all BS and some other posters are biting it without thinking. Caste system in Hindu employees in US...the guy is smoking something potent.

I think the flamer guy is a pakistani. He knows more about RSS than I know. And it looks like he is smoking the the afghan stuff he is selling. Looks like no body told him "Don't get high on your own supply".

KirKS · Post by **KirKS** » Thu May 12, 2011 10:54 pm

aden123;387952http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-05-10-tech-talents-leave-silicon-valley_n.htm

This paragraph caught my eye from the link you have posted:

[QUOTE]
"Some things happen for the better," says Bahl, 28, whose H-1B visa permitting him to work in the U.S. expired in 2007.

The first thought that came to my mind. If a guy is 28 in 2011, he must have been 24 or 25 in 2007. H1 B 'expiring' at that age? Most would have just started their 2nd year by then after college, if they went to study in US. So something didn't make sense.

Then I digged Kunal Bahl's article from Economic Times.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-04-04/news/29374914_1_discount-coupons-small-retailers-kunal-bahl

[QUOTE]While I was studying and working in the US between 2002 and 2006, I realised that the retail landscape in India had changed. Buyers were becoming more sophisticated and small retailers had turned professional. So, while consumers still liked a good bargain, they weren't interested in petty haggling. It struck me that starting a business that provided discount coupons would succeed in India and so I returned to Delhi in November 2007.

I had gone to America for a degree in business from the Wharton School and then I did my post graduation from the Kellogg Management Institute. After completing my studies in 2006, I picked a job as a business development executive with a multinational software firm. Simultaneously, I worked as a consultant for a consumer start-up to launch a detergent. My understanding of market psychology and trends helped me formulate a plan to set up my own venture in India.

My best guess after reading these, he was studying and working on student Visa. Then he started his job only in 2006, but something prompted him to return to India in 2007.

So most likely this is NOT an 'expired' H1 Visa case that forced someone to leave US. I don't know many guys who went to school while being on H1, without converting to an F1. Even if was on H1, right from the day he landed in US (unlikely), he had a clear case for extending till at least 2010, if it was just like any other regular case.

Hence, the article looks suspicious. 'Sponsored' by those wanting to mellow down H1B clampdowns?

ahirman · Post by **ahirman** » Thu May 12, 2011 11:12 pm

I read about his profile somewhere else too. Yes he didnt fit the typical H-1B profile. He is not a tech talent either.

Such kind of talent usually go after opportunities and not geographies so whether he went back to India doesnt really make a difference in the reverse drain debate.