I think we might see more instances of this happening, not less. The thing is SF salaries are very high compared to just anywhere else in the world. There are m

I think we might see more instances of this happening, not less. The thing is SF salaries are very high compared to just anywhere else in the world. There are many reasons for that (high rent, high concentration of talent), but I doubt these justify paying 300k when Uber can pay 80k to an engineer in India. To people saying the difference in salary is not large, it absolutely is large, and they can check https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Uber/Google https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Uber/Google for some data points. Not to mention this is just salary, cost of employment will include more things like real estate costs, health insurance, all of which will make this even bigger. Also, India has good enough engineering talent that product quality shouldn't be an issue given good technical leadership. If companies can hire people straight out of bootcamps for entry level jobs, they can sure get better value by hiring someone having a very good CSE education at much lower cost. Even the vast majority of work at FAANGs doesn't require a Dave Cutler or Jeff Dean. For example, majority of engineers at Google are not working on Search, Colossus,BigTable,Spanner,Borg or the most important technologies. Most engineers just need to know how to use BigTable/Spanner, and that is much easier than designing them.