Indians Outshine Americans in Math and Logic

There has always been a tug of war between various opinion leaders or image magicians who shape international image building of Indian IT professionals in the USA; nonetheless, GILD, the professional social networking platform that combines social gaming with career advancement, has recently released results of a first ever major international study comparing American and Indian software developers at least in key programming and language communication skills, based on over 1 million tests taken by nearly 500,000 developers.

And the good news, of course on record now, is that Indians outshine US developers in math and logic, two of the core skills desired by US technology companies such as Oracle, Salesforce.com, and eBay. However, Americans clearly lead the world in web programming skills, valued by companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Well, given the analysis, it clearly indicates that Indians have less chance of exploring the opportunities in new-age technology companies.

According to the study, Indian developers outscore US developers on analytical skills like math and logic by 11%; on the contrary US developers outperform Indian counterparts on mainstream programming languages including C (8%), JAVA (9%), SQL (9%), and in web programming languages 53% higher scores on advanced PHP and 27% higher on advanced HTML. Moreover, US developers are 33% better skilled than Indian counterparts at English communication skills, which is fundamentally a valid case, as English is not the first language of Indians.

Well, the skill rivalry among Indian and American developers though marks some glaring askance in web programming skills, the exciting proposition that drives back home some brownie points lies in the fundamental skills such as Math and Logic, which often differentiate one between a good programmer and great programmer.

Moreover, US tech companies which outsource their software development projects to Indian tech companies will now be in a better position to deliberate upon the type of developments before signing their contracts, and it's equally an opportunity for Indian developers to take up the challenge and outshine their US counterparts at least in the next such international survey conducted by GILD.