The note about inflated titles is the biggest real difference I see. If you hired a bunch of brand new US/EU recruits and stuck them in an office and just said "get it done" you'd probably end up with the same amount of work/issues.
Actually, now that I think about it, a friend of mine worked at Andersen Consulting, he was one of the few from CS, most were Business people who had majored in whatever Business Computing program their school offered. Abyssmal would be a good word for the quality of work done there (this was a decade ago, may have changed). It was hire new grads at 40k, bill them out at $300/hr. Other than the scale of money, I doubt it was much different than what you'd find in most Indian consulting firms.
I've worked with many different Indians, most were not incompetent. The biggest problem we seem to have is hiring someone decent, new recruits are easy to come by, but retention of quality isn't working so well. I expect once wages are more even on a global level things will change, but that's still a few years away.
Actually, now that I think about it, a friend of mine worked at Andersen Consulting, he was one of the few from CS, most were Business people who had majored in whatever Business Computing program their school offered. Abyssmal would be a good word for the quality of work done there (this was a decade ago, may have changed). It was hire new grads at 40k, bill them out at $300/hr. Other than the scale of money, I doubt it was much different than what you'd find in most Indian consulting firms.
I've worked with many different Indians, most were not incompetent. The biggest problem we seem to have is hiring someone decent, new recruits are easy to come by, but retention of quality isn't working so well. I expect once wages are more even on a global level things will change, but that's still a few years away.