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Wouldn't it only be fair for us to be handing more jobs to those with greater need in countries like India? Share the wealth, right?
Don't they have their own ridesharing companies? I don't see why they need uber's jobs, that wouldn't bring much wealth to them but to institutional American shareholders mostly.
How does the SV crowd here see this? Considering that even entry web devs with only bootcamp experience often enough make >$100,000, outsourcing to India is a good idea, economically speaking. Could a successful outsourcing project by Uber threaten all SV tech jobs?
Uber is on top of a death spiral with covid, the kill lift strategy by being unprofitable not working, softbank... From the engineering point of view Uber is done. The self driving automation is probably not possible in the next x years. It has a working successful product probably too many developers now working on non-core projects. Moving it to India they can keep the same numbers employed reduce costs and probabl…
Or just not done. There's no reason for Uber to be working on self-driving at this point. Door to door fully autonomous driving in relatively dense areas--i.e. where it makes sense for Uber to operate--is decades away. Autonomous highway driving--which will probably arrive earlier (maybe much earlier)--does absolutely nothing for a would-be automated taxi service.
How does the SV crowd here see this? Considering that even entry web devs with only bootcamp experience often enough make >$100,000, outsourcing to India is a good idea, economically speaking. Could a successful outsourcing project by Uber threaten all SV tech jobs?
No. To get the same amount of quality in india you’ll be paying roughly the same - and then have cultural and timezone barriers.
Actually, why not Canada? Salaries are again much lower than Silicon Valley, the timezone is the same, the language is the same (except in Quebec), and it would be great to stop Canadian software engineers from moving to the US in droves due to lack of opportunities at home.
How does the SV crowd here see this? Considering that even entry web devs with only bootcamp experience often enough make >$100,000, outsourcing to India is a good idea, economically speaking. Could a successful outsourcing project by Uber threaten all SV tech jobs?
No. To get the same amount of quality in india you’ll be paying roughly the same - and then have cultural and timezone barriers.
To get a good job in India, you will need more than skills - connections and a limited edition degree.
On the other hand India has an excellent education system and highly skilled engineers, and any capital flow away from the five big cities in the world that sinks the vast majority of it can only be a good thing.
How does the SV crowd here see this? Considering that even entry web devs with only bootcamp experience often enough make >$100,000, outsourcing to India is a good idea, economically speaking. Could a successful outsourcing project by Uber threaten all SV tech jobs?
Shift innovation to India? Have they seen India's track record on tech innovation? The education system there does not produce very innovative people or engineers. However they are great at following exact instructions so I'm sure that part of engineering team will do well
I agree that India has not been the best in terms of tech innovation but the situation is changing. The start up ecosystem is booming here and investments are following too.
How does the SV crowd here see this? Considering that even entry web devs with only bootcamp experience often enough make >$100,000, outsourcing to India is a good idea, economically speaking. Could a successful outsourcing project by Uber threaten all SV tech jobs?
Good for India if it works out, I guess. But it feels - to my uninformed biased mind - like more of Uber flailing around while slowly failing. > Could a successful outsourcing project by Uber threaten all SV tech jobs? No. It could be part of some downward pressure at worst. Outsourcing to India has gone on for 2-3 decades. It's not some new disruptive thing.
I guess what's different here is that Uber is a proper tech company and knows how to identify good engineers to hire. The same cannot be said of non-tech companies that have outsourced to consultancies like Infosys and Wipro.
Wouldn't it only be fair for us to be handing more jobs to those with greater need in countries like India? Share the wealth, right?