Indians trash Silicon Valley, the vibe is gone

Weren’t all these parasites supposed to keep the valley booming and innovate for America.

WHERE ARE THE JOBS AND INNOVATION YOU PROMISED US, INDIA?

Why are they not being held accountable for failure now that we’ve paid them billions and handed them our best tech jobs?

This is the 4th time in 20 years foreign parasite workers have wrecked the bay area. The American-created iPhone boom could only last so long and now even Apple has been invaded by the looters.

The valley is collapsing.

Indians didn’t deliver as promised.

Call your congresspeople and demand and end to all foreign work visas now.

This is the first time I am coming back from a trip to SF (and this is the longest I stayed in the city, and talked to so many more people, including those who went for Tech Crunch disrupt) without even 1 conversation where I felt like "wow they are building something cool!"
— Arnav Gupta (@championswimmer) November 4, 2022

Jobs have totally dried up. And this was before last 3-4 days brought another trance of large layoffs

Talking to some EMs (across multiple companies) – everyone's been strictly told "zero headcount"
No one is hiring

Teams that really need people too have been forbidden to hire
— Arnav Gupta (@championswimmer) November 4, 2022

I've worked with Infosys before and they were terrible
— Artur Jorge's Bigode (@v1va_la_v1da) October 30, 2022

I can see how being young immigrants in the last few years in the most expensive city in America can be an uphill battle. There is still a lot of exciting tech being built in Silicon Valley just not at big tech which has now become all about operations.
— Deepa Goyal (@1sprintatatime) November 4, 2022

H-1Bs and H4s are non-immigrants, not immigrants. Why are you doing visa fraud?

I was in USA, (specifically San Francisco and other parts of Silicon Valley) for the larger part of last month, and I talked to over 25 people, mostly Indian (but not all) and mostly working on big tech (but not all as engineers).

Here's a thread on the "vibe" I got
— Arnav Gupta (@championswimmer) November 4, 2022

Almost without fail, every person I talked to, is very dispassionate about their work.

Pandemic, (and with it, close brush with death and existence) has gotten more people question the "meaning" of anything and everything. No one cares about their work anymore it seems.
— Arnav Gupta (@championswimmer) November 4, 2022

Met at least half a dozen people who have gone on some or other official trip to NYC, or EU, or somewhere, on some pretense because "travel budgets are going away, using it while it lasts".

The fact that wasting employer's money leads to mass layoffs is a bit lost on them.
— Arnav Gupta (@championswimmer) November 4, 2022

Though there is some truth to your observations it sounds like you talked to mostly young Indians on visas working in big tech. Thats as good as talking to infosys folks and commenting on indian startup scene.
— Deepa Goyal (@1sprintatatime) November 4, 2022

Being dispassionate about work means – you can be passionate about other things in life.

I was there during Diwali. People do dress up, and have better parties on Diwali that most people in India do!
— Arnav Gupta (@championswimmer) November 4, 2022

The problem though is – many had moved in with a job, with the plan that their partner would find a job too, very soon, and then being double-income would be easy to manage costs of living in US.

But by the time H4/L2 employment authorisation took place, tech winter started.
— Arnav Gupta (@championswimmer) November 4, 2022

The one company among big tech which is very visibly tightening its belt, and most employees are feeling very grim about, is Meta.

Taking food from office home in take-away boxes is banned now, bringing guests to lunch is not allowed. Super high cost cutting
— Arnav Gupta (@championswimmer) November 4, 2022

Even companies which historically are not part of the "free lunch" culture (the non-valley originated ones like Amazon, Microsoft), have offices in SF/Bay Area with lunch and perks not found elsewhere.

SF tech offices truly do pamper employees in a different way.
— Arnav Gupta (@championswimmer) November 4, 2022

Shame on you @nytimes and shame on you @guardian for such Hinduphobic attitude that force you to lie. There is a saying in India, when dogs bark, their death is near. Your future awaits that.
— Rajesh Kumar Rathi (@me_rkrathi) October 30, 2022

Even your NASSCOM PR lackeys have turned on you now – seeing as how you’ve trashed and destroyed most of America. Anyone with 2 brain cells of common sense are hinduphobic. No one wants to be invaded, looted, and destroyed.

And using the internet to make death threats is a Federal crime. Weren’t these people supposed to be here to help us? India is not our “ally” folks. These people hate us and want us gone.

Infosys saved the British??? pic.twitter.com/RVzTF0D8Mi
— "Crocendra Tears" ? Lion (@Loquacious_Lion) October 30, 2022