Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
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Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
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Re: Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
#2Shift 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
Re: Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
#3Isn’t this a dupe from a few days ago:
Re: Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
#4Shift 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
They produce plenty of competent engineers, but my layman's interpretation is the problem of capital being concentrated in Silicon Valley, so there's little chance for tech entrepreneurs to flourish within India itself.
Re: Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
#5Shift 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
They produce plenty of competent engineers, but my layman's interpretation is the problem of capital being concentrated in Silicon Valley, so there's little chance for tech entrepreneurs to flourish within India itself.
No doubt they produce many great engineers, my argument is that they are not necessarily innovative (having studied in the same system, I've seen it first hand)
Re: Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
#6How 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?
Re: Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
They produce plenty of competent engineers, but my layman's interpretation is the problem of capital being concentrated in Silicon Valley, so there's little chance for tech entrepreneurs to flourish within India itself.
No doubt they produce many great engineers, my argument is that they are not necessarily innovative (having studied in the same system, I've seen it first hand)
Similar to Europe.
Re: Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
#8How 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.
Re: Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
#9How 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?
People are downvoting the other response, but it's absolutely correct. You can't hire 1:1 between the US and India and get the same quality for less money. You can try, but it won't end well.
Re: Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India
#10Shift 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
You are not wrong overall but the mindset is changing. It wil take many years though due to the systematic and cultural norms. Most Indians are taught to do "service" instead of "innovate" because it has been a poor country with tons of competition for good jobs. Only in the last decade or so, the younger generation is realizing that innovation is important and even though the Govt. is mostly inept in encouraging this, I have seen first hand how the kids think these days and it is a good start. With more people moving into the Middle class, their access to resources is improving as well. May takes decades though.