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I’m not sure who told you we get high salaries, but that’s definitely not true across the board. Our wages are actually quite unlivable. The reason we get 10% raises is because it’s a high inflation country.
We work ridiculous hours to serve our American overlords (which makes RTO policies so unreasonable). And if you choose to work for an Indian company instead, they’ll make you work every Saturday.
There’s a reason why everyone here wants to move to the US. That said, India is one of the few countries with a positive growth story so I’m cautiously optimistic. Lots of companies outsourcing jobs to here.
I'm by no means an expert on India and its employment picture. But just common sense and general awareness tells us that appraisal can't be true. There are many Indians who come to the US to work in the tech industry, but I don't know that I've heard of any Americans wanting to relocate to India. That seems to tell a story.
It's down to salary and benefits. Both are much higher in the West than in India. After a few years, Indian engineers go back to their own country with everything they have learned which is a brain drain for US and EU.
I'll say that I do not envy the devs I support that work in India. They are over worked, under paid, have 1000 other people waiting to take their job the instant they fuck up and get let go, and don't even get me started on that 10% raise and that would be about a .10% raise in USD. Unless you are a Senior Software Engineer, a dev is making at most about $60K/yr and most are making about half (if that much) where I working in end user support make about $50k/yr.
Please educate yourself on cost of living, pay rates, exchange rates, and cost of education on other countries before posting nonsense.
I think you are smoking crack. US Tech Salaries are declining, and LATAM Nearshoring is in high demand. Stop post-click baiting and focus on the facts. The argument is the significant and pivotal shift that is currently happening across the globe.
Now do cost of living, quality of life and actual numbers not percentages.
From my experience, they aren't that good most of them and according to that their salary isn't that high. (Speaking from the European union)
I believe you don’t know what salaries are outside of the US. As most folks have already told you here, Indians would’ve been leaving their own country in packs if their salaries were livable there
IDK. It is interesting being the token "white, american" guy in an industry dominated by Indians
I came here to say what it appears that everyone else is saying. No, I do not envy the Indian tech industry because I do not envy their salaries. They get big raises because companies want them to stay, but a 10% raise to someone making maybe 20% of your salary is not much money.
I have to disagree....pay to outsourced countries is quite low - but there are exceptions of course, I worked for a large company that started hiring in India and Phillipines where I worked alongside them and they were paid low. cheap labor for american company.
It depends what the "tech" is. In aerospace? Sure, they have a very lively sector. In medicine? Yeah, the schools and advanced research facilities are awesome. Materials and manufacturing? This is a mixed bag. There is advanced science being done in materials and chemical engineering, and that's been very promising to watch unfold, but I don't have a window into where the funding is strongest - there are a lot of foreign companies with great labs and exceedingly talented and creative people. I don't have a clear window into the native research centers and businesses. IT? Not so much - it's very competitive and pay is low. Software development in general is a mixed bag - the smart global players will have an office there (M$oft, Oracle, SAP, etc) but there's a huge segment of global businesses that rely on Indian contract developers for low-cost maintenance work but withhold the creative and research work. You'll have to do a lot of footwork to break into the exciting stuff.
As someone who moved to the U.S. after working in India for a year, I find that getting a job in America is harder. I think securing an entry-level role is much easier in India compared to the U.S. That said, America is still America—if you succeed, you succeed big.
"Opportunity for growth" means "no growth." Ask yourself what "10% raise" really translates to.
10% raise on what salary? The average salary for a software engineer in say, Bangalore, is ₹1.2M. Sounds like a lot on paper but is the equivalent to about $14k.
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