“The things I’d eat out of her Ash. You have no idea.” – Goldstein
Bangalore, April 3: After graduating from Northwestern University last year, Nate Linkon contemplated job offers in Chicago and New York. But he chose a less conventional path and started his career in India’s booming tech capital.
The 22-year-old Milwaukee native works in marketing at Infosys Technologies Ltd, India’s second-largest software exporter. He’s part of a small but growing number of young Americans moving to Bangalore and other Indian cities to beef up their resumes, launch businesses or study globalisation in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
Like the young Americans who flocked to Eastern European cities like Prague and Budapest after the fall of Communism, some college and business school grads are now heading to the world’s second most populous nation to be part of its historic economic expansion.
“I didn’t want a typical job right after college,” said Peter Norlander, 22, who took a job in Infosys’ Human Resources Department after graduating from Cornell University last year. “Big things are happening here. I’ve got a front seat.”
To answer the questionthat is sure to pop up in these comments: the girl in the picture is a very popular Bollywood actress named Aishwarya “Ash” Rai.
Probably your officemates will be indian hags. But if they have cute “ash” count me in.
And to think most Filipino developers want to go *to* Silicon Valley. Hey, let’s trade!