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Can we derive anything meaningful from the fact that this Hacker News item almost gets no response and just a few comments?

HN is SV centric where IBM is an East coast tech company. HN is startup centric where IBM is over 100 years old. HN is very B2C centric where IBM is almost exclusively B2B.

HN doesn’t deal too much with enterprise companies.

Re: IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

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Can we derive anything meaningful from the fact that this Hacker News item almost gets no response and just a few comments?

I'll never forgive them for subjecting me to Clearcase or DOORS.

I always found Clearcase crazy complicated to use, but it has so many cool ideas in its design.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Satya wasn't an engineer at microsoft. This is true, strictly speaking. But (also strictly speaking) he was an engineer > Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet[7] before receiving a bachelor's in electrical engineering[8] from the Manipal Institute of Technology (then part of Mangalore University) in Karnataka in 1988.[9][10] Nadella subsequently traveled to the U.S. to study for an M.S. in compute…

Nadella was a Program Manager at Microsoft.

And? He started as an engineer. GP didn't say he had to be an engineer at his current company.

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Another Indian-born tech CEO? It's incredible. IBM joins Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Nokia, and Harman in this regard. Also, MasterCard and PepsiCo (until 2018). I wonder how much it's a cultural thing.

This is a biased, but honest observation that I'd like to share. I've been working for a big corp for about 5 years now. I was born in a SE Asian country and came to the US for college. I have worked with a lot of India-born people. As a fellow foreigner and as an Asian, I can tell that more often than not Indian people are bolder and more aggressive in asking for what they want (e.g., one of my Indian colleague aske…

>>On top of that, some of them are pretty clever at courting favor of their superiors and/or playing office politics.

As a fellow Indian myself, let me assure you the biggest victims of this are the remaining other fellow Indian themselves.

Things like this are the biggest reason why I wish I had a chance to settle and work in the US.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a biased, but honest observation that I'd like to share. I've been working for a big corp for about 5 years now. I was born in a SE Asian country and came to the US for college. I have worked with a lot of India-born people. As a fellow foreigner and as an Asian, I can tell that more often than not Indian people are bolder and more aggressive in asking for what they want (e.g., one of my Indian colleague aske…

>>On top of that, some of them are pretty clever at courting favor of their superiors and/or playing office politics. As a fellow Indian myself, let me assure you the biggest victims of this are the remaining other fellow Indian themselves. Things like this are the biggest reason why I wish I had a chance to settle and work in the US.

I believe Denpok from Silicon Valley is representative

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Another Indian-born tech CEO? It's incredible. IBM joins Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Nokia, and Harman in this regard. Also, MasterCard and PepsiCo (until 2018). I wonder how much it's a cultural thing.

This is a biased, but honest observation that I'd like to share. I've been working for a big corp for about 5 years now. I was born in a SE Asian country and came to the US for college. I have worked with a lot of India-born people. As a fellow foreigner and as an Asian, I can tell that more often than not Indian people are bolder and more aggressive in asking for what they want (e.g., one of my Indian colleague aske…

This followed my own similar observations with Indian people that I know. They, more often than not, are more confident and straightforward in their actions whether it be how they honestly feel or not.

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Another Indian-born tech CEO? It's incredible. IBM joins Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Nokia, and Harman in this regard. Also, MasterCard and PepsiCo (until 2018). I wonder how much it's a cultural thing.

It's indeed impressive. However, from working with many Indians, I think they succeed mainly because there are so many of them. They are also great socially and speak English, which gives them an edge over asians. Professionaly they have many problems.
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