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Can you get ~1000 9$ an hour employees with engineering degrees though? In China and most of Asia, you easily can. While these people won't be MIT grads, you c

• RamanathanR 8y ago
  You have hit the nail on the head. The reason that Silicon Valley has so many of the Chinese/Indian/Other nationalities is simply because of the volume of available "Good Enough" Engineering talent. In most of these cultures a Master's degree is almost the norm. With this in hand, the practical aspects can often be learnt in training/on-the-job. Given that much of Modern Engineering has been systematically streamlined and commoditized, you really don't need very much "Creative" and "Out-of-the-Box" thinking as much as people who can manage and contribute within the existing framework and systems.
• thrower123 8y ago
  I assume you can, because holy fuck, are these supposedly engineering grads that I deal with from tata and cognizent and att and others of these gawdawful out sourcing outfitz, fucking terrible. I wouldn't hire for them to mow my lawn. I can't express my distaste such companies any more without entering explicit territory.
  • fooker 8y ago
    > I wouldn't hire for them to mow my lawn You wouldn't but enough people are, apparently, hiring them to do quite a lot of IT work nobody else would touch. Otherwise their business model wouldn't work at all.
    • thrower123 8y ago
      It's sad, but apparently that is the case. I feel badly for those companies