Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia’s ‘Gyaan’: The problem with 99% engineers in India is …

Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail, has criticized India’s engineering ecosystem for fostering management-oriented graduates rather than builders and innovators, claiming that most engineers lack practical skills needed for technological advancement. “99% of Indian who graduate as engineers join management and start giving gyaan to everybody. Where is the work ethic, where they really work with their hands and really go and build some stuff?” Bhatia said during a podcast with YouTuber Singh in USA.

Bhatia pointed out a fundamental issue in how India’s business culture celebrates outsourcing rather than original creation. “Here, people value anybody who does work with their hands… and yet he’s the software guru of India, he’s the business guru of dealing in, you know, who does body shopping—not software,” Bhatia remarked.