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> Outsourcing to India has gone on for 2-3 decades. It's not some new disruptive thing. I guess what's different here is that Uber is a proper tech company and
by quicklime 6y ago
> Outsourcing to India has gone on for 2-3 decades. It's not some new disruptive thing.
I guess what's different here is that Uber is a proper tech company and knows how to identify good engineers to hire. The same cannot be said of non-tech companies that have outsourced to consultancies like Infosys and Wipro.
- crowquill 6y agoAnd I don’t think that makes a difference. All FAANG companies (which I’d say can also identify good engineers) already have engineering offices in India.
- quicklime 6y agoThe results that Uber gets will depend on exactly how they execute. If they're serious about their goal to "shift engineering innovation to India", then it might be different from what the FAANGs have done. In my experience working with the India team at (one of) the FAANGs, it seemed like they were offloading the work that people didn't want to do in SV to the Hyderabad office (e.g. testing, maintenance of legacy systems). But it could also be the case that there are innovative things being built in these India offices that people just assume were built in the US.
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoSo are Google, Microsoft, Amazon and many other companies that have large offices in India. This isn't a new thing. This is just a common strategy that many companies take once they are large enough to be able to handle the extra overhead of working across a 12 hour time difference.