An Observation

When I began my training here, I thought for sure that the Indian students in the class would perform much better in the academic setting than us from the American batch. I figured it's Infosys, one of the biggest and best companies in India so they'd hire only the brightest kids. A lot of the U.S. guys felt the same way too. However, now that I'm somewhat into the training, it's actually quite the opposite. It's the American kids who are outperforming the Indian students.

We're usually done with our assignments for the day around 5 or 6 while most of the Indian students are still there working late. When the teacher asks questions a lot of the Indian students don't know the answer. I'm not really sure why this is, the things we've learned so far are pretty basic Computer Science fundamentals. They should all have CS or Engineering backgrounds if they're in the fast track so it doesn't make too much sense.

Also, when they answer questions they usually just regurgitate whatever was on the power point slide. I don't think the school system here really advocates much of the independent thinking that's pushed so strongly in the U.S. It's really fascinating how different we even act compared to the Indian trainees. I'm not saying the Indian trainees are inferior or anything, it's just interesting how much the cultural difference has an impact on the way we learn and think.

That's just my observation, there are a lot of variables that I don't know about so I could be totally off base, but from a surface inspection that's what it seems like.