[prakhar897]

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.

[ramraj07]

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.

[cleanchit]

Just a reminder that their mars mission cost less than the movie gravity.

[manquer]

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)