Friday, November 01, 2002

Bill Gates India visit

Bill Gates shattered the urban myth that 32 % of Microsoft employees are of Indian-origin. Here's an excerpt of an interview with Bill Gates published in The Times of India:

"TOI: The urban myth is that 32 per cent of Microsoft employees are of Indian-origin, but that seems a stretch.
Bill Gates: Yes, that's too much. But if you took just our engineering departments then it's about 20 per cent.
TOI: That's still huge.
Bill Gates:Yes, that's huge and that's just the engineering department. It's a good-sized community. Hey, they even have a cricket community. But I will say the Indian restaurants in Seattle could be better. But we are working on that.
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