| Absolutely not. I work hard and pay high taxes without much complaint to try and help enrich both myself and the society I am a part of. Helping companies offshore work destroys local jobs, depresses salaries and helps the rich get all the richer at a time where they've already taken a disproportionate amount of the gains from the increases in productivity since the 70s and in that time, as the panama papers et al. have shown, have done all they can to hide those profits from the societies that generated them. I'm also pretty staunchly anti-globalism so it would make a hypocrite of me if I did. As a hiring manager, a large part of my filtering of candidate resumes / applications is focused on being able to validate their credentials e.g. who they've worked for, where they were educated and how they did there, any repos / sideprojects etc. and make my opinion based on the composite. If I can't easily validate those credentials then I move on. India has a reputation for spinning up "colleges" to pump out "engineers"[0], to the point where they now recognize the issue caused and are trying to put further efforts on hold [1], and so assessing the educational credentials of a candidate who has not explicitly attended IIT becomes a minefield. Validating non-local experience is a similar minefield. Instead of recognizing previous employers and having some idea of the work they do and the quality of it, one has to start googling the companies, diving into websites / glassdoor / etc. to find out what calibre they are. Another point against hiring globally for me. Overall, I would be no more hesitant about hiring Indians in India than I would anyone else in a foreign country with a resume that is difficult to validate, but it's not something I will ever support as I believe in creating local jobs and supporting the local society and economy wherever possible. [0] https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/ [1] https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/02/14/AICTE-No-new... |
Western companies did make a big mistake in not embracing the large talent pool in India early enough for more cutting edge R&D or engineering work. This has worked to harm both sides.
Now it has lost the competitive edge to Huawei which has access to a large and cheap pool of talent. While neither Huawei or Ericsson work on essential/Core R&D in India,
Huawei has a larger presence in India than Ericsson which just runs back office jobs and backend SW development.
India is Ericsson's largest and most promising future market and has been there for 100 years but has always lacked the commitment, thanks to "misplaced nationalism". While I am suspicious of Huawei and China in general, I am happy that Ericsson has competition.