What not to do at IIT

Finished "Five point someone" by Chetan Bhagat yesterday.

quite an interesting read, good story telling, definitely made connection.

I am feeling nostalgic....

If you can't beat them, join them

Fortune has an interesting article on how offshoring is impacting the thinking of tech workers in US. Excerpt from Joining the March of Jobs Overseas:

While multitudes of laid-off tech workers are struggling to find a new footing here at home, there is another approach: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. The Association of Executive Search Consultants (www.aesc.org) sent along a new survey that says 34% of American senior executives would take a job in India. Likewise, 34% would move to Russia, and fully half would go to China. Companies trying to expand in those parts of the world are hungry for management talent, says association chief Peter Felix. "Search firms have been flooded with requests" for executives willing to pack their bags, he says. One such is Josh Bornstein, a former Los Angeles investment banker who moved to Bangalore last fall to co-manage business planning for Infosys. "I would highly recommend such a move for new college graduates and people with one to three years' experience," he writes.

Strangely, Josh echoes the thought we have been discussing in our office for a proposed exchange program. I initially thought, people won't buy it, but probably I was wrong.