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btech1232132last Tuesday at 10:19 PM1 replyview on HN

Currently looking for a new role in biotech and it seems like at many companies it is almost 40:1 india vs united states roles being posted. This is in R&D not even manufacturing.


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dahezalast Tuesday at 10:54 PM

If the US actually cared about retaining jobs for the people they would enforce ratios of onshore / offshore with heavy taxes if companies did not reach that ratio.

Companies don't want to pay US salaries, cost of living in the US are not going down, costs of engineering talent in India is cheaper, you can hire 2 devs for the cost of 1 US dev. Why would you ever have any US engineering devs?

It won't change organically unless the costs of India engineers goes up or the costs of US engineers goes down.

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