Bhai, I have been observing this trend for over a decade now. I have been in C-Suite meetings where the Indian origin directors have been quickly dismissed while the American origin (both, whites and non-whites born and raised in the US) have carried on lengthy discussions of their project status in the same meetings.
I was also a bystander in a debate between an expert (LPIC-1 certified) Linux admin of Indian origin and a shit-for-brains American born & raised Latino Windows engineer, and just on the prowess of the language, the Indian was out argued by this numb nut who spent all his life clicking around the Windows GUI.
This is precisely also why the American sales/marketing person is leaps and bounds ahead of the non-native-English speaking counterpart.
The reason Indians and some other non-native English speaking people get noticed is because many bosses have seen and experienced the fact that no one can outwork Indians/Chinese/Vietnamese. The pakis in fact have it worse, they are largely unskilled, no work ethic and cant speak the language as much as Indians.
PS: I have seen similar comments about Poles and even in one small project that had three Russian devs - and the folks from both of these countries have far better quality than the regular American born employee.
Trust me, the ability to communicate in the language is more than 70% of the effort if you want to show yourself as smart in the US.
Bhai, i also work corporate IT and have been in it for nearly 20 years. In my experience, what you say is true, but its symptomatic and not causal. because as i said, the same 'speaks poorly' is applicable, even more so, to Koreans and Japanese and Taiwanese but in their case, the whites give them all the graces to 'find the words'and make an effort to understand them.
So this tells me, that the dismissiveness of Indians (and poles & russians) isnt due to language competency, its due to the 'image narrative' constructed in western world around those cultures.
You see, Russians and Poles are the 'schedule cast whites' to the westoids, while we are 'inferior humans due to having inferior societal skills' in their eyes. Their whole idea of india and Indian history revolves around the notion that we've all been ruled by a series of Amrish Puris from Temple of Doom as our Rajas and Maharajas and basically a 'good indian raja' is one who doesnt set his wife on fire or drink from the skulls of his enemies but thats about it- they do not see our culture, our 'great ones' as particularly enlightened or forward thinking as the Euro 'great monarchs'. But the Japanese/Korean/Taiwanese- well these were the Asians 'just civilised enough' to know that while their system was inferior to the white mans, they were still good enough to copy the best to become the best and they basically look on the Koreans/Japs/Taiwanese the way a bishop or a cleric looks on, 30 years later, to the ones they converted and stayed zealously converted, carrying forward 'gods work'.
This is the white mentality.
And the only ones who can deal with this mentality to the full extent, are the Chinese - who basically play the ' if you wanna go racist on the people of the middle kingdom ruled by the Sons of heaven, well two can play this game and i will show you what racism, china style looks like'. This is the main reason ( and not hurr durr human rights/communism/totalitarianism stick they use on China) why the whites fear and hate China & Chinese people : they are the best the world has in doing the whole 'two can play at this game' motto to whites.
This i know, from living in Vancouver, a city that is basically 40-20-20-10-10 split between whites,Indians,Chinese,Filipino and the rest category.
