I honestly don’t get Pajeet hate. Has it really been simmering for so long? Yes, gas station Jeets who hardly speak English and smug coder Jeets are annoying, but not annoying enough to merit this sort of coordinated response. Everything about it, about how coordinated it was across multiple platforms, made it feel like some kind of artificial glowie op to me. A distraction, to take the heat off another group.
If you've been working in tech for the last 15 years or so - yes, it really has been simmering for that long.
Every coder remembers the very first time they got their first jeet manlet boss with a napoleon complex who tried to pull their caste bullshit on you and turned your life into a living hell.
We all watched them spend a decade abusing a loophole in the H1-B system in order to import their whole extended families over - we watched them take over tech companies, wriggle their way into hiring positions, and engage in blatant and obvious nepotism and cronyism, while the HR harpies gave a big smile and shouted DIIII-VERRRSSITYYY AND EQ-UITTYYY to us in our faces while they did it.
When I was in college, software was a "good" job, it was like saying you were going to law school. Now it's borderline slave labor thanks to jeets and jeet line managers.
Companies in the last 5 years built facilities in Hyderabad and Chenni and gave them cute names like "Excellence Centers" and "Innovation Sites" but they're literally just bullpens for half-price jeet code monkey slaves. And they sit there and tell us to just deal with it - "Hey you American, we know that you have a masters degree in machine theory, but we're creating 1000 new devops jobs in our
ExCeLlEnCe CeNtEr where we're going to hire some borderline-illiterate Rakesh who shits in the fucking street for one-third the cost! Sorry we couldn't promote you, maybe next year champ! Hang in there!"
And software
itself has suffered tremendously from jeetery. I blame a large part of enshittification on jeets. Every time I turn on my Windows machine I get greeted with some bullshit nag message. SAAAAAR U NEED TO ACTIVATE WINDOWS HELLO NOW SAAAR. Could you fucking imagine Windows 95 pestering you with nags every other day?