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by pyjug 1887 days ago
Also, to caution folks who think India is only a place for "cheap devs", there is a perfect confluence of factors happening right now that is driving salaries up and incentivizing good engineers to stay back in India -- immigration restrictions, remote hiring and a domestic startup scene. Some startups who are building for the US/international market are all but Indian, they only have a US HQ for ops, sales etc.

This hasn't gone unnoticed by investors. See PG's recent tweet - https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1381669057548713984?s=20

The US runs the risk of being "China'ed" again, in a different field -- this is not outsourcing anymore, this is real competitive software products being built in India.