GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired
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Re: GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired
#2> It does go against the notion that lower cost of labor places are safer from cuts, though.
Interesting, people were talking about remote work meaning that companies will now pay less due to a global talent pool, but it might just go to show that workers are not all fungible with other workers in different countries. It rings of the same fears as outsourcing a few decades ago.
Re: GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired
#3Between the timezones, language and dialect differences, and cultural differences, offshoring can be more trouble than it's worth.
Re: GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired
#4If you make your high-cost employees much more productive with AI, you may not need to reduce per-headcount cost so much anymore. The cultural and language benefits start to dominate the calculation.
That said, India will only grow in importance, so I wouldn't be surprised if the team was reinstated in a few years
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#5I'm not privy to anything special here, but I do get the impression that (intuitively) it's easier to target layoffs in areas with weaker employee protection laws. In most EU countries, it's pretty hard to make these kinds of redundancies without going through a slow and expensive process, as well as paying severance.
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#6Punishment for a leaked private key?
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#7Re: GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired
#8I'm not privy to anything special here, but I do get the impression that (intuitively) it's easier to target layoffs in areas with weaker employee protection laws. In most EU countries, it's pretty hard to make these kinds of redundancies without going through a slow and expensive process, as well as paying severance.
Or areas with weaker employees.
I doubt they axed an entire team for monetary reasons alone. They could have axed 1/10th the employees in the bay area and probably covered the entire India roster (financial cost wise).
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#9What towns in South America have a concentration of software developers? Might target my real estate purchases there
I’m finding that there's a lot more focus on timezone quality of life for US centric organizations, and that includes getting rid of their teams in Asia now and avoiding that
Re-Discovering South America over and over again for similar help and cost
Re: GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired
#10Perhaps the laidoff team can clone Gitea and start a competitor to GitHub.
I would have seriously thought about it if I were there and part of that team.