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Ireland won anything lately ?
The Rugby on Sunday. They were looking very good actually, might be a dark horse for the Six Nations.
It was banter for the craic, no offense.
Nadella as Microsoft CEO: A slap in the face for Indian system
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Re: Nadella as Microsoft CEO: A slap in the face for Indian system
#152"If Satya Nadella had remained in India,he would probably be working as a coder in Infosys or TCS. Earning a high salary no doubt, but an unlikely candidate for CEO" TCS(Tata Consultancy Services) CEOs, current or past, were not from IITs.
Are you serious? Nandan Nilekani was hired at Infosys as a programmer. He ultimately went on to become the CEO.
The line in quotes is from the article. I was trying to counter it by citing TCS CEOs were not IITians.
I should have made it more explicit.
Re: Nadella as Microsoft CEO: A slap in the face for Indian system
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Was he, per chance, invaded by a nation that loved its nationalism uber alles? A nation that was only recently unified from many tribes, and whose politicians longing for a great nation resulted in 50-70 million dead? No thanks. Nationality is whose warlords turf you are born on. The second we get over this concept, the world will be a better place.
Well, close, but Poland was invaded by a number of neighbors (we also did some invading ourselves, back when we actually could). Your reasoning makes me think of the prisoner's dilemma. Sure, if everyone agreed to just abandon the concepts of cultural identity (leading to nationality) and live in peace, the world would be a better place. But for the moment, I'm afraid that "world peace" is something that only Miss Wo…
Btw, I'm not suggesting to abandon cultural identity. Those are natural in a sense, while I feel that nationality is a tool to herd people in. Conflicts will continue to happen, no doubt, we're still human. But at least they are somewhat justified clashes, instead of made up wars that serve only the interests of an elite.
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A caveat : The pool of IIM or IIT aspirants is a very low signal to noise ratio. It's not just that they are hard to get into, it's the number of people who aren't prepared for it but still pony up the entrance fee. I'm sure that's not the case with Ivy leagues.
That's just not correct. IIT's are exceptionally difficult to get into. The entrance exams(IIT JEE) nearly kill the kids. Plus in the scale of India's population you get a lot of kids, who are working for years to crack the examination. So the only way to create a selection process is to have a crazy difficult exam.
Please read the comment again, I think you interpreted it incorrectly. I'm saying, lots of people are forced to appear for IIT/IIM due to peer/parental pressure but they are clearly not even close to prepared for it. This isn't the case with ivy leagues i.e. bound-to-be-rejected applicants are far lesser with ivy