"A chance to move up fast in an economy growing at 7 or 8 % a year"

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India, Inc.

No longer just an outsourcing hub for low-level jobs, India is luring top American talent and unprecedented new investments by tech giants like Microsoft and Intel.

By Vibhuti Patel
Newsweek
Updated: 1:23 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2005



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10455090/site/newsweek/

While research positions with American companies based in India may soon be a draw for American engineers, American students already in India are gathering professional experience with Indian companies. Thirty-year-old Tim Hentzel is an M.B.A. student at the Wharton School of Business who first went to India in 2004 on his school’s three-week "global immersion" program. Infosys, an IT business and consulting services firm traded on the Nasdaq, piqued his interest because "their <106> interns come from all over the world—I needed the international experience." Infosys also appealed to him because their interns work on hands-on projects, are matched to mentors and have easy access to the company's top executives. Of his stint at the company's spa-like campus in Bangalore, Hentzel says, "it's the best decision I made. India's on the cutting edge." He says he put in long hours and made lasting personal and professional contacts because "I had gone to work, not for a safari."

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M.B.A.s aren't the only ones seeking professional experience in India. Emily Hueske, who is researching mutating proteins in mice for her Ph.D., spent two months at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore. "Our lab at MIT wanted to do the work that this excellent neuroscience lab is doing; I wanted to go because India's religion, food, culture are so different." She valued meeting Indian families, and the "real" people that casual visitors don't see. "It was the most solid work time I had with a specific goal. The lab is supremely set up—different from MIT because it's more conservationist, there's more recycling."

For Indian-American business and technology students, India's economic rise could be both a professional and personal boon. Samuel Varghese, a married 35-year-old, has an M.B.A. from Duke University. He used to go "home" to India every year to visit family. When it was time to choose an internship, he went to Infosys "primarily because it was a good job opportunity, the company has tremendous growth," but also because "living and working there is different from visiting India." But Navi Radjou at Forrester says that to lure more Indian-American (and American) talent, India will have to improve its crumbling infrastructure. "If you want to build chip manufacturing facilities, you need good electricity, you need good roads to transport the chips. And if you want Indian expats to come back, they need decent schools and houses."
Even intrepid young managers like Simonsen took some time to get used to less-sophisticated living conditions. He was surprised to find that his base of Gurgaon, near Delhi, has "bars, shopping malls and world-class buildings in empty fields with wild dogs and pigs." The constant dust is hard to cope with, and he got sick. "It's welcoming and I'm flexible, but it's a huge change in lifestyle. I miss home comforts and variety of food."

Nonetheless, Simonsen says that the challenges are far outweighed by the chance to move up fast in a national economy that's growing at seven or eight percent a year. He started with Cobol Partners as an intern and within a month he was promoted to senior vice president of operations, in charge of IT, recruiting and administration. Simonsen was thrilled. "I'd never have got such responsibility in a U.S. company—Copal has grown 300 percent in manpower in six months. You have doubts from home, but once you're here, it's different."

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1. Its a move up society and American Corporations are raising

their competitors and India is Socialist...