Comments on: HCL CEO says American grads unemployable

By: Santosh

Santosh — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:11:21 +0000

Arunk,
Who knows what his real point was. The thing is whatever it was he was trying to say, he picked the least articulate way to do it.

Kancheong,
That ad is so pretentious it’s funny.

John,
It’s possible it’s a HCL employee trying to link Nayar’s lame response.

By: john

john — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:55:51 +0000

@Hiranya : Poster possible HCL employee, trying very hard to post Vineet’s blog URL all over the place.

By: kancheong Spider

kancheong Spider — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:26:08 +0000

His company is an outsourcing sweatshop …of course people with 10 cents worth knowledge would better know.And their ridiculous AD’s just sum it all up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWvLHyDsNII

By: Arunk

Arunk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:43:37 +0000

IMO, it is a loaded statement and as such ambiguous. If he mean unemployable for his company because of the type of business they do (which requires heavy dose of processes), then that is possible albeit still a gross generalization – and certainly undiplomatic. Perhaps that this was the viewpoint of IT services, particularly the kind HCL provides was implied.

But if he means beyond that and more generally, then he is smoking stuff. I also loved the way he clubbed “next big thing” with “getting rich” – although I know what he means ! True, that many startups come up with innovations with the hope of that pot of gold – but I would say a lot more american grads are getting rich on Wall Street without all this startup nonsense. In other words if the aim is to become rich, innovation in technology etc. has the odds of lottery.

Arun

By: Santosh

Santosh — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:18:59 +0000

Hiranya,
Like I said earlier I could not find the original quotes anywhere.
Thanks for the link. As for Vineet Nayar, if he had said in his meeting what he wrote on his blog, it probably might not have been as controversial.
As a former journalist, do you think he did this for publicity?