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The competent people in India usually end up working for foreign companies directly in a development center, or for a WITCH type company in dev centers. I assu
by JJMcJ 4y ago
The competent people in India usually end up working for foreign companies directly in a development center, or for a WITCH type company in dev centers.
I assume some work for Indian companies doing ordinary development work, banks, government, manufacturing.
Also competent people in Indian are not so cheap any more. The days of IIT Bangalore top 10% of class graduates working for $5K a year are long gone. The $8K average salary is going to lead to a world of hurt.
> prove he was a hotshot
First time I heard the term "offshore", the VP who used it sound like he was so clever. It should be noted the company was gone within two years. People who worked with this VP at another company didn't want to talk about when I ran into them later.
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago> Also competent people in Indian are not so cheap any more. The days of IIT Bangalore top 10% of class graduates working for $5K a year are long gone. Yes, but IIUC, the going rate for FAANG quality mid-level engineers is still about the same as entry level startup engineers in The Bay, LA, NYC, Seattle, etc (most of the US SWE workforce).
- JJMcJ 4y agoGiven the timezone, cultural, supervision, issues of offshoring, that makes it less of a bargain than it used to be. Supervision - people in the USA have to oversee the offshore work, maybe even travel overseas, and video calls at 11 PM two or three times a week gets real old real fast, or else the people in India have to work difficult hours three times a week for conferences and they are exhausted and miserable.