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It is not a myth, it is merely overreported. For every competent Indian that moves to the US for a tech job, there are 4 that decide to stay back home for a $1
by screye 5y ago
It is not a myth, it is merely overreported.
For every competent Indian that moves to the US for a tech job, there are 4 that decide to stay back home for a $10-15k-ish job.
India is increasingly training several orders of magnitude more engineers than the US. Even if estimates were overestimating the number of competent Individuals in India by an order of magnitude, the number will still over shadow the American workforce.
It has already happened once with China. It would not be surprising if it happens with India. Only this time, the competing workforce will be fluent in English.
- valarauko 5y ago> For every competent Indian that moves to the US for a tech job, there are 4 that decide to stay back home for a $10-15k-ish job. Given the vagaries of the US visa regime, plenty of talented Indians can't come over even if they wanted to.
- jholman 5y ago> several orders of magnitude more engineers than the US Wait, what? Several orders of magnitude, like at least 3 orders of magnitude? So even though India has 4x the population of the United States, it's training at least a thousand times as many engineers? That's amazing! It's also totally not true at all. Spend a few seconds on Google. Note that I don't particularly disagree with the rest of your comment.
- screye 5y agoMy bad, I should have specified. An order of magnitude does not need to be decimal. Order of 2 is also sufficient. The US produces between 50-100K CS grads (depending on how you count majors). India produces about 1 million by the same metric. That's a 10-20x difference.