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The OP is right on all counts. I live in New Delhi and often work freelance (Python/iOS work). What I've found is: - Indian companies rarely pay well. I feel l

The OP is right on all counts. I live in New Delhi and often work freelance (Python/iOS work). What I've found is: - Indian companies rarely pay well. I feel lucky if I can convince someone to pay me $12/hr. - Most have unreasonable qualification criteria. Why do you want a degree when I have references and real world experience? - A large number of them will treat people who went to "lesser" colleges differently from those who went to one of the IITs. - I've never received a payment on time. On the other hand, my friends who have done contract work for American firms got paid on time. This has been my experience. Of course, YMMV.

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ajju 15y ago
I think you will find that the college pedigree bias is prominent everywhere amongst Indians. It's sad. Also, the website in your profile (http://uncool.in http://uncool.in) does not seem to be up. Wanted to check out your portfolio.
- GeneralMaximus 15y ago
  > Also, the website in your profile (http://uncool.in http://uncool.in) does not seem to be up. Wanted to check out your portfolio. Sadly, it's been down for a while. I was moving from a shared host to a VPS, but I was waylaid by midterms :/ If you send me an email, I'll email back with my resume. Email is in my profile.
csomar 15y ago
You said you have experience and references. It's time to collect your best projects and make an online portfolio and start looking for foreign opportunities.
- kamaal 15y ago
  Although this seems the easiest way out, but I don't think we should give into the demands of the system. For a while going away to US or the West has been the aim of our youth and needless to say this has caused significant amount of brain drain. The society is resistive to change, but change they will finally some day. For example, a relative of mine immigrated to the US in the 90's. And is a successful doctor there. Now sometimes when he comes back for a vacation he wonders it was not such a good decision after all. There are plenty of opportunities in India. And you can economically well off too. On the other hand. The cost of living in the US is too high, for the conservative and savings driven lives of Indians it becomes a little to get adjusted there. You life is driven by perpetual debt and insurances. Ultimately it looks like money is not for your luxury but you are for the luxury of money and big banks. Sure the infrastructure is a lot cleaner and there are high rises, it may feel like you in heaven for some time. But on a longer run, spending your whole life paying off bank loans, credit card debts and all sorts of loans and debts. At the end of it you feel all that was not worth it.
kamaal 15y ago
The problem is people have a notion that people from big-brand colleges will always do well. Though this isn't true always. But I think that helps at some degree in eliminating false positives. From my experience I see, often the best paid are the ones who hop jobs very often. They would have very little experience and ability to work. And often don't work at all. But they would have strong associations/connections and would have worked for big brands. And the HRs hiring some how think that coming out a big brand automatically makes you more qualified for that job. The net result is a certain section of people(inefficient) go round and round every 1.5 years. The same talent pool keeps circulating between companies. Sooner or later their bluff is called and companies reach to a conclusion that there is no good technical talent in India. Which is of course wrong. On the other hand, good folks who tend to hang on for some time learning and working for long term projects are treated badly, denied promotions and hikes. After all this the system still wonders why the good folks are not in enough supply. It's simple, we don't reward meritocracy and we don't get people with merit.

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ajju 15y ago

I think you will find that the college pedigree bias is prominent everywhere amongst Indians. It's sad. Also, the website in your profile (http://uncool.in http://uncool.in) does not seem to be up. Wanted to check out your portfolio.

GeneralMaximus 15y ago
> Also, the website in your profile (http://uncool.in http://uncool.in) does not seem to be up. Wanted to check out your portfolio. Sadly, it's been down for a while. I was moving from a shared host to a VPS, but I was waylaid by midterms :/ If you send me an email, I'll email back with my resume. Email is in my profile.

csomar 15y ago

You said you have experience and references. It's time to collect your best projects and make an online portfolio and start looking for foreign opportunities.

kamaal 15y ago
Although this seems the easiest way out, but I don't think we should give into the demands of the system. For a while going away to US or the West has been the aim of our youth and needless to say this has caused significant amount of brain drain. The society is resistive to change, but change they will finally some day. For example, a relative of mine immigrated to the US in the 90's. And is a successful doctor there. Now sometimes when he comes back for a vacation he wonders it was not such a good decision after all. There are plenty of opportunities in India. And you can economically well off too. On the other hand. The cost of living in the US is too high, for the conservative and savings driven lives of Indians it becomes a little to get adjusted there. You life is driven by perpetual debt and insurances. Ultimately it looks like money is not for your luxury but you are for the luxury of money and big banks. Sure the infrastructure is a lot cleaner and there are high rises, it may feel like you in heaven for some time. But on a longer run, spending your whole life paying off bank loans, credit card debts and all sorts of loans and debts. At the end of it you feel all that was not worth it.

kamaal 15y ago

The problem is people have a notion that people from big-brand colleges will always do well. Though this isn't true always. But I think that helps at some degree in eliminating false positives. From my experience I see, often the best paid are the ones who hop jobs very often. They would have very little experience and ability to work. And often don't work at all. But they would have strong associations/connections and would have worked for big brands. And the HRs hiring some how think that coming out a big brand automatically makes you more qualified for that job. The net result is a certain section of people(inefficient) go round and round every 1.5 years. The same talent pool keeps circulating between companies. Sooner or later their bluff is called and companies reach to a conclusion that there is no good technical talent in India. Which is of course wrong. On the other hand, good folks who tend to hang on for some time learning and working for long term projects are treated badly, denied promotions and hikes. After all this the system still wonders why the good folks are not in enough supply. It's simple, we don't reward meritocracy and we don't get people with merit.