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What's IAS? Is it a big deal?

by fxfan 7y ago

blntechie 7y ago
IAS is Indian Administrative Services. It means his dad most likely worked as a top level bureaucrat in the government and was relatively privileged.
- puranjay 7y ago
  "relatively" is underselling it. Indian IAS officers are basically modern day nobility.
  - dhruvarora013 7y ago
    That is definitely an oversell. An entry level IAS officer makes Rs. 56100[1] which is about 800 USD a month. Definitely not an amount to scoff at in India but not even close to a level of privilege that would make you the CEO of a trillion-dollar company. Satya has two advanced degrees from US Institutions and has worked at Microsoft for over 27 years. I think his father has had very little to do with his current stature. [1] https://www.clearias.com/salary-of-an-ias-officer/ https://www.clearias.com/salary-of-an-ias-officer/
    - puranjay 7y ago
      The original statement was about Nadella's own privileged background. No one is arguing that an IAS officer is more privileged than the CEO of Microsoft. As an aside, salary is just about the worst way to evaluate power and privilege of government officials. By that metric, an AVP at Google is more privileged than the President of the United States.
    - telltruth 7y ago
      Getting education in US as a foreign student from 3rd world country typically requires existence of rich parents.
    - kamaal 7y ago
      That's like splitting hairs. C'mon. On the job perks include Free accommodation, chauffeured cars, pensions, maids, bribes, pensions, plot buying opportunities in top govt layouts and peons to do everything including for something as simple as forwarding a memo. Heck bribes itself can set your 7 generations for a life time of nobility. There is a reason why people waste years behind cracking these exams.
ignoramous 7y ago
If you're a corrupt IAS officer, you're a big deal: https://www.quora.com/Can-an-IAS-officer-earn-in-crore https://www.quora.com/Can-an-IAS-officer-earn-in-crore If you're not, you are still a big deal, on a different scale.
intended 7y ago
Relatively, The gov of India has a cadre or trained bureaucrats, who are selected after passing a rigorous exam. Its a check on your real world thinking skills in many ways. The exam is hard, and people spend years to ensure they get through. The people who pass are sent to the foreign services, admin services, and police services. IAS officers have over the years earned a rep for being capable bureaucrats (modulo the level of noise coming from a massive developing World population dealing with issues ranging from poverty to corruption). These are the people who run municipalities for what would be high populations cities in the west, secretaries to ministers and so on. They don’t have money, but they are the nerves and ligaments of state machinery.

What's IAS? Is it a big deal?

by fxfan 7y ago

What's IAS? Is it a big deal?

IAS is Indian Administrative Services. It means his dad most likely worked as a top level bureaucrat in the government and was relatively privileged.

puranjay 7y ago
"relatively" is underselling it. Indian IAS officers are basically modern day nobility.
- dhruvarora013 7y ago
  That is definitely an oversell. An entry level IAS officer makes Rs. 56100[1] which is about 800 USD a month. Definitely not an amount to scoff at in India but not even close to a level of privilege that would make you the CEO of a trillion-dollar company. Satya has two advanced degrees from US Institutions and has worked at Microsoft for over 27 years. I think his father has had very little to do with his current stature. [1] https://www.clearias.com/salary-of-an-ias-officer/ https://www.clearias.com/salary-of-an-ias-officer/
  - puranjay 7y ago
    The original statement was about Nadella's own privileged background. No one is arguing that an IAS officer is more privileged than the CEO of Microsoft. As an aside, salary is just about the worst way to evaluate power and privilege of government officials. By that metric, an AVP at Google is more privileged than the President of the United States.
  - telltruth 7y ago
    Getting education in US as a foreign student from 3rd world country typically requires existence of rich parents.
  - kamaal 7y ago
    That's like splitting hairs. C'mon. On the job perks include Free accommodation, chauffeured cars, pensions, maids, bribes, pensions, plot buying opportunities in top govt layouts and peons to do everything including for something as simple as forwarding a memo. Heck bribes itself can set your 7 generations for a life time of nobility. There is a reason why people waste years behind cracking these exams.

ignoramous 7y ago

If you're a corrupt IAS officer, you're a big deal: https://www.quora.com/Can-an-IAS-officer-earn-in-crore https://www.quora.com/Can-an-IAS-officer-earn-in-crore If you're not, you are still a big deal, on a different scale.

intended 7y ago

Relatively, The gov of India has a cadre or trained bureaucrats, who are selected after passing a rigorous exam. Its a check on your real world thinking skills in many ways. The exam is hard, and people spend years to ensure they get through. The people who pass are sent to the foreign services, admin services, and police services. IAS officers have over the years earned a rep for being capable bureaucrats (modulo the level of noise coming from a massive developing World population dealing with issues ranging from poverty to corruption). These are the people who run municipalities for what would be high populations cities in the west, secretaries to ministers and so on. They don’t have money, but they are the nerves and ligaments of state machinery.