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Heh. Depends on which part of India you're referring to. The younger me would have found it more difficult to get foreign assignments that form the foundation f
by sudhirj 10y ago
Heh. Depends on which part of India you're referring to. The younger me would have found it more difficult to get foreign assignments that form the foundation for a lot of the house buying and marriage making here, but I think the slightly more experienced folks like present me welcome the change - that is the low end of the salary range I'd expect if I was going to jump countries with a family, and now I don't have to compete in a lottery with tens of thousands of fresh graduates wanting onsite assignments.
The bodyshops like TCS, CTS and Infy will suffer, though. Their exorbitant margins on shipping obedient and freshfaced barely-post-teenagers off to projects where they're mostly expected to punch the clock and do bits and pieces of what the Architect says / tech support are over. They'll survive, though - the Leads, Pricipals and Architects will just have to travel up and down a bit more. I expect they'll lay off a lot of people, though. And the long tail of salaries here will likely go down. But if there is an increase in off-site outsourcing, it'll balance things out. They'll just staff more people at the home base and freeze salary hikes citing this.
Dowries will also likely go down. There's going to be a sudden dearth of grooms with the cachet of foreign work experience and a cache of saved dollars. It's also possible that if this sticks a lot of the shady engineering colleges that have sprung up here like weeds will see reduced demand. Entry fees at medical colleges will probably spike.
- tootie 10y agoThese Indian body shops are the bane of my existence but I know a bunch of H1B holders that were FTEs and I would be horrified to lose them. I don't know what they get paid, but I know it's below the rate for non-Visa holders. If you're an architect in NYC (which a bunch of them are) they probably top the $130K margin, but a bunch definitely won't.
- X86BSD 10y agoGood, CTS is an appalling sweatshop of a company and should be barred from working in the US.
- eklavya 10y agoJust how big do you think the Indian IT outsourcing industry is in the big Indian picture? I wouldn't be so sure to predict wholesale social and economic changes :D
- guard-of-terra 10y ago> Dowries will also likely go down I can't help wondering, how does being in IT and travelling to USA affect female Indians' marriage prospects? There's definitely quite a few Indian women in american IT, expecially project management. I more or less understand how for a male this is very desirable, can you fill me in what's in it for females?
- neigindian 10y ago>>>Dowries will also likely go down. This guy is autistic and has never worked in US. United State's feminism policy now prefers more women to talented men. Just look at all Ivy and 2nd tier universities. Dowries are almost never happen from lower middle class. I am speaking this from my own experience. In fact, males are in disadvantage when it comes to marriage. Girls expect to be 6' tall, own house, car and no cooking. I live in US and looking to marry to an Indian girl, but almost all have rejected me for whatever reason they know. I am not looking from any caste or religion. Quite a few I found to be slutting around after doing research online. Any indian girl coming to US for studies rides cocks left and right. In fact, all my white friends tease me that they can fuck Indian girls, but I can't get one. Feminism is in full force in India and US. This is a moderate move in my opinion.