An Open Letter to India’s Employers
This is in response to An Open Letter to India’s Graduating Classes that was published in NYTimes India. Dear Indian Employers This is your new/current employee. We are MBAs, Engineers, B.Com’s and everything between them. We take the salary that you give and keep fighting to understand the peanut-ness of that. Many of us have landed on our first job, discussions around salaries and job titles are over, and we’re ready to contribute. Life is good – except that it’s not. Not for us, your employees, at least. Most of your assignments will be substandard, clerical, frustrating, white lies and with limited application of our skills. We too need to gear ourselves up for broken promises and unmet expectations. Today we regret to inform you that you are spoiled. You are spoiled by the “India growth story”; by an assumption that the Indian Education system is capable of producing talent that you companies will continue to exploit; that the growth will continue in double d