Why are there so many more Indians in tech than Chinese?

they're too busy messing around with your Coke.

Theres not. You just see more Indians or hear more Indians due to the CCP and their quasi closed society.

Not a popular answer, but Indians are just inherently smarter in certain fields. They are amazing doctors too.

There is a common misconception that Chinese people are super intelligent.

They are one of the dumbest races on the planet.

just because they ain't STEMing in the US does not mean they ain't STEMing

There are billions of both and they don’t send the dumbest over here.

Which would you trust with detailed knowledge of company’s back office processes?

I work in tech as a software engineer, on the contrary there are many Chinese who work at FAANG’s, however you don’t hear it as much. It’s hard to find Tivoli Experts, SAP Professionals, SAS Programmers, Oracle Developers, Java/Web Developers, Cisco Network Engineers, .Net Developers, C/C++ Embedded Engineers, QA Testers, and other similar skills that are growing faster than the current supply can handle. Americans simply don't do these jobs. The aforementioned, I’ve specifically found that Chinese certainly represent those specific skill sets over East Indians.

Several years ago FAANG’s loved the $130K H1B salary amendment. Zoe Lofgren’s bill clearly states that they can add bonus and stock options to the base salary to meet the $130K requirement. Moreover, even if a tech firm is H1B dependent, and can meet the $130K requirement, they will file and get it easily. It was also a big reprieve to start-up companies who needed this kind of talent without the hassle of the H1B lottery.

What you’re seeing is the impact of H1B’s which is heavily dominated by East Indians IT consulting companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, ect, ect who send engineers to work at customer sites, in which they charge a client a set price, for example $100 to $180 per hour, which helps the client undercut an American job, and the consulting company pays 70% of the billed price to the H1B visa holder. In this model there is no way IT firms can pay $130K to a consulting employee, it’s simply not viable anymore.

There’s lots of Chinese in the Silicon Valley and Seattle who work in tech. I work with many Chinese who are very good at their jobs. For example, many Chinese gravitated to the Silicon Valley way before the East Indians arrived. Bill Shockley and the Fairchild team was probably what kick-started the Silicon Valley miracle. Certainly if there was no Fairchild, there would be no Intel, and the entire semiconductor ecosystem that puts the Santa Clara Valley on the map. No Fairchild also probably means there would be no Kleiner Perkins, the reknown SV VC, and that would mean no Netscape, and no internet boom in the 90s. If you walk into any STEM Masters program, you’ll see it is heavily dominated by Asians, as opposed to East Indians. Are East Indians present, sure, but not nearly as represented by Asians.

Many more companies have operations in India than in China based on my experience. This naturally opens up more opportunities for Indians in US companies.

There are plenty of Chinese in tech and adjacent industries, I've just found that they tend to be in roles that interact less with others beyond their team. Indians have a more Western disposition to a large extent and are more relatable culturally, so that also opens up more visible roles.

This is all anecdotal of course.

In my experience with tech companies …Indians are in support roles
Chinese are developers … Chinese will be sponsored for visa by company

Indians will not..

A side note.. India ..Indians are not considered a minority for things like kids applying to college .. I am talking about second third… etc generation us citizens.