"Engineers here are bred to work for services companies." Heh! sounds like Bangalore (I live there). But otoh I know great (self directed!) programmers who'd

"Engineers here are bred to work for services companies." Heh! sounds like Bangalore (I live there). But otoh I know great (self directed!) programmers who'd love to work with a good startup. There are great engineers who aren't all looking to emigrate to the USA. But most work is the "work on grungy enterprise codebases no one in the west wants to touch. Not many great startups yet. Should write an essay about that one of these days.