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You would not want an IT job in India - they're terrible. You're a lemming. Lots of programmers in India, very few hackers. At the high end, the very few int
by rjurney 17y ago
You would not want an IT job in India - they're terrible. You're a lemming. Lots of programmers in India, very few hackers. At the high end, the very few interesting jobs, you're competing with the finest minds in India - and you'll probably lose.
But its a good place to do some serious hacking, if you've saved up money stateside, or have a consulting gig. I posted a bit about doing product development in India here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532825 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532825
- plinkplonk 17y ago"You would not want an IT job in India - they're terrible." This is largely true. There are good jobs - one of my friends just got a job programming text to speech systems in scheme, and that her first job just out of school - but they are very rare. But most "IT" jobs in India suck for sure.
- badri 17y agoexactly. that's partly because most boring bit and pieces of IT are outsourced to Indian IT majors.
- paraschopra 17y agoYes, very true. A typical IT job would make you cry for help, make you wonder the purpose of life and make you feel doubtful if all your 16 odd years of education (school + college) were worth it. Typically you are expected to work late at nights debugging someone else's code or doing trivial stuff. Luckily, I am working on computer adaptive tests which is uber cool.