Wow, this is so accurate. I used to do a lot tech interviews in my previous organisation and 90% of the time, would wind up with a person whose near future goal is to be a manager or who would boast of having managed x number of people, apparently that profile being of a more prestige value than someone who purely codes. In due of course of that experience, I could also derive that this attitude kind of stems from difference in our approach to getting in computer science itself.. most folks who get into a particular engineering stream (computer science/ electronics/ IT etc.) in India don't do it out of an interest in that particular stream but rather out of the prestige that the stream has because people with higher grades in the engineering entrance exams are "supposed to" join these streams rather than mechanical or chemical streams, in which they might have more interest. This is again associated with the employment opportunities and social standing offered by that employment in a developing economy like India.