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by ramraj07 1173 days ago
I explicitly measured my words when I said “good” - india has a metric ton of engineers most employed in the WITCH consultant shops and none of them know any real programming. The median gets affected by it. A lot. Any decent engineer at the level GitHub would hire would get 40 lacs per annum INR the first year after graduation (very conservatively) which is $50k usd. Someone working at GitHub or any top tier startup or FAAnG after 4-6 years of experience would be making north of 100-150k usd.
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prakhar897 1173 days ago
Not really.

Amazon pays 160k$ to freshers in US. It pays 25L aka 30k$ in India. SDE2 band in India is 65k$ to 100k$. SDE3 Gets 150k$ to 200k$.

Add to that the lax regulations of labor laws in India and Amazon paying top of the market, they get a skilled and an experienced worker in India for the same price as a 21 yr old US college grad.

India is still extremely cheap compared to the west.

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ramraj07 1173 days ago
I don’t know what to say man, you can keep insisting no one pays well in india, all I know are people making 1Cr+ with 6 years of experience in early thirties. Amazon doesn’t pay well anywhere tbh.
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cleanchit 1173 days ago
Just a reminder that their mars mission cost less than the movie gravity.
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manquer 1173 days ago
Government salaries are not comparable at all.

Government staff in india get ton of perks - cheap housing , very good pensions, healthcare for life and so on .

There is no easy way to cost this, that mission headline number is probably only the incremental mission specific expenses that got budgeted not the actual costs which are far higher if done via contractors (nasa) or private initiative (spaceX)

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vhiremath4 1173 days ago
For those wondering what WITCH is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27571707

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hiq 1173 days ago
> The median gets affected by it. A lot.

You're saying it explains a multiplier of 4 between medians, do you have any source for that?

If I look for e.g. Apple ICT3 in India vs the UK it's $58k vs $132k.

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/apple/salaries/software-eng...

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/apple/salaries/software-eng...

That's still a multiplier of 2. For ICT5 the multiplier is even higher.

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