Originally posted by fishbuff:
show if an asian in australia hire the whole IT dept of asians, there will be revolt and will be splashed across the news media.
this however, showed just how the mom and the govt willing to get the general population to bend over for the sake of fts.
i have malay IT ex-colleagues and till this day, worked for more than 8 years in the same position in *CS at the same position. why cant they trained and promoted to take on better roles, instead of balantly call in indian/PRC/china FTs to hold on better positions?
one of the govt site that my GM used to run, had this indian FT tasked to monitor the entire enterprise backup system. everyday told my GM that the backup jobs where ok, but there was a crash with one of the mission critical servers and need urgent recovery. the FT couldnt do it.. and my GM found out that the backups had failed consistently for the past 3 months!
their certification and training, according to my ex-indian IT colleague, are received in school compound with a trainer using an overhead projector to teach to a mass of 500-1000+ students at a fee of $100 per head. after which, they are presented a cert called "certified in java programming, or plsql programming"!
i knew some foreign directors that are clueless on what core IT system are all about in SG. coz i presented to them before!
Not all these FTs are that great.