[astrange]

I don't know about 12 hours away - that'd be China and Perth - but there's certainly FAANG engineering offices in Europe, Canada, Japan, Sydney…

But FAANG isn't going to leave Silicon Valley. If your theory says that's a good idea, you should ditch it for one that has empirical evidence for working.

[subarctic]

FWIW, it looks like Mumbai is 13.5h ahead of California and 10.5h ahead of New York, which works out to 12h if you average them

[danielmarkbruce]

California to various parts of India is 12 hrs at various times in the year.