vadym909

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by vadym909 11y ago
I believe this is how a majority of tech people feel and Mark just said it very succinctly. Surprised that PG who I respect as a great writer opted to go 'extremist' with his opinion instead of highlighting the nuance.
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Germany has fully free college education and labor fully involved in management. It is a good example of capitalism that benefits the middle class rather than the US system that increasingly feels rigged against the common man. It is great
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They won't. Software oddly, managed to avoid dealing much with the Govt because no one understood it, customers were overseas, it brought in much needed foreign exchange. Software succeeded in spite of all this.
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by vadym909 11y ago
Usually love PG's essays but this one is pretty shallow in how it tackles the subject. Smart as he is I'm sure PG understands what people are talking about- the problem is the 90% that don't work in overhyped and overvalued s
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by vadym909 11y ago
comparison of the salaries and numbers of h1b visas of the 'genuine' vs 'staffing'. Last year the top 2 staffing cos - Infosys and TCS got 40,000 visas (2/3rds of the quota) at an average salary between $60-80K. The
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1. High Govt regulation, permission, licensing, red tape, labor laws, politics 2. Irregular power and water supply 3. Poor infrastructure/Logistics- Roads, Bridges, Rails, Ports
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Most foreigners think all of the US looks like New York City or a Beverly Hills suburb because they see that version all the time in the hit movies and on popular TV shows. My relative came to Silicon Valley and was shocked it wasn't l
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by vadym909 11y ago
Yes- my friend goes to India and does his annual checkups/ dental checkups and fillings for a few hundred rupees which is cheaper than the deductible of his dental insurance here. Last time he had heart pain and went to a top heart spe
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No- you find a job title that has a lower prevailing wage- for example programmer analyst vs application developer or something else. Companies like Infosys and TCS pay $70K/year
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by vadym909 11y ago
I'm not sure if or why this is news? Everywhere you read, VCs say- don't cold call- come through a warm introduction which makes it clear that there are insider groups and people that carry weight. Not necessary that their scout c
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The good ones mostly do and switch to their client companies so effectively a large portion of the TCS/Wipro/Infosys cadre end up at the right places that pay the most. The bad ones suck it up and stick around. So the offshore com
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I have friends that live and work there and they swear they wouldn't if they had an option. Gurgaon and NOIDA on the opposite end of Delhi grew because real estate prices were skyrocketing in Delhi. Multinational companies outsourcing
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To the people that say an employee should just quit- it isn't that easy. 1. While it may be good for your resume to show you got selected by AMZN, the reverse is it hurts your resume to show you only lasted a few months which may impl
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Its so hard to believe that the end goal is to be a curated oDesk- which essentially makes it even worse than a online labor marketplace- a services business of which there are 100,000+ in the world. What would be the differentiator? The id
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by vadym909 11y ago
Congrats- How is this different than Internmatch, Readyforce or even Indeed or snagajob?