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> 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, bu
by 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.