India's Silicon Valley Offers the Cheapest Engineers, But the Quality of Their Talent is Another Story (qz.com)

Ananya Bhattacharya, writing for Quartz: Bengaluru's startup ecosystem is what it is because of its engineers. With an average annual salary of $8,600, engineers in India's tech hub cost 13 times less than their Silicon Valley counterparts, according to the 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report. The city is home to the world's cheapest crop of engineers, with the average annual pay of a resident software engineer falling well below the global figure of $49,000. [...] However, the city's talent pool poses challenges in access and quality. For the most part, "engineers haven't been hired very quickly, experience is average, and visa success is low," the report says. "The quality and professionalism of resources is also questionable in many cases," Abhimanyu Godara, founder of US-based chatbot startup Bottr.me, which has a development team in Bangalore, said in the report.

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Re:Skeptical

[sabri]

I'm skeptical that India is REALLY producing engineers worthy of replacing Americans, or any other Western country.

The same can be said about the U.S.

Rednecks in the deep south still marry their sisters. Racism is still a big problem in society. Misogynistic execs in billion dollar companies like Uber.

It's not about the country, it's about the individuals. I've seen Indian engineers who are absolute rubbish, not worth the paper their H1-B is printed on. But I've also seen brilliant ones, smart and respectful. Keep in mind that in most countries, only 30% of people have the intellectual capacity to earn a college degree.