Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India

Post by bane » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

felixarba wrote: post #43

mabbo wrote: post #36

A better option: shift it's engineering to everywhere else in America , and go full-remote, but pay less. Imagine if Uber told it's developers: we're cutting salaries by 40%- but you are now full-remote, and we want you to live somewhere less expensive than SV. Spread out across America! A lot of folks would quit. But some would see the incredible opportunity. In that situation, I'd move somewhere like Chattanooga TN…

This is not as good as it sounds just because it works for you. People don't love moving, and they usually move for better work opportunities, not to accomodate a pay cut at their current job. Moving to a lower cost of living area also means moving to an area with less opportunities, and not to mention moving away from your social circles and the life you have established somewhere. The only way I can see this workin…

Post by new2628 » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

_tw9j wrote: post #35

ageofwant wrote: post #25

Well this has worked great for Boeing, a once great American engineering company. 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.

> India has an excellent education system Explain in which way is it excellent? Which part do you think Indian education system does well relatively?

Post by anonms-coward » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

bgdam wrote: post #92

Wow, some rampant generalization in this thread. What most people outside of India seem to fail to understand is that most of the experience they have had and stories they've heard of are based off of poorly paid, not very highly skilled engineers employed at body shop consultancies. There is also another class of software engineers in India who are as good as SV engineers who work at companies like Ola, Bookmyshow,…

Post by new2628 » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 5:00 PM UTC

_tw9j wrote: post #94

new2628 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK, I'll bite. The top academic institutions in the exact sciences and engineering (old IITs, IISc) are excellent by any standard, and the students are top notch, due to the large pool from which they are selected and the brutally tough selection process. Example: a significant number of the top CS researchers in the world are graduates from these institutes.

> The top academic institutions in the exact sciences and engineering (old IITs, IISc) are excellent by any standard, and the students are top notch, due to the large pool from which they are selected and the brutally tough selection process. It's a result of huge population and most institutions being trash so students are concentrated in one place. That is in no way a feature of the education system itself.

Post by searchableguy » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 5:19 PM UTC

new2628 wrote: post #97

_tw9j wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The top academic institutions in the exact sciences and engineering (old IITs, IISc) are excellent by any standard, and the students are top notch, due to the large pool from which they are selected and the brutally tough selection process. It's a result of huge population and most institutions being trash so students are concentrated in one place. That is in no way a feature of the education system itself.

The quality of your peers is an important feature of any educational system (if not the most important) -- by that measure alone the top institutes in India are excellent. The top researchers/professors at those institutes are also a product of the same institutes, and the same selection process, so the top institutes are generally of a high standard (in terms of workload, choice of topics, teaching quality, etc.). A…