> Italy is like a higher quality India in a sense.

It's attitudes like this that rub decisionmakers who aren't of European heritage the wrong way.

Italian tech salaries [0] aren't significantly different from Indian tech salaries [1], especially in major hubs like Bangalore [2].

If companies like Google [5], Broadcom [6], and Nvidia [7] can afford to pay EU level salaries in India and decided to heavily invest in hiring in India, it shows that Indian talent can't be underestimated.

Also, a European dismissing Indian engineering quality doesn't bode well as your governments that are signing an FTA [3] and a security and defense partnership [4] with India in a couple days, and with the Italian government soliciting Indian capital for infrastructure investment [8] and the French government soliciting Indian capital for defense [9] and infrastructure [10] investment.

[0] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/italy

[1] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/india

[2] - https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/eu-nears-historic-trade-...

[4] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/eu-proceed-security-defe...

[5] - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...

[6] - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/broadcom/salaries/software-...

[7] - https://www.levels.fyi/companies/nvidia/salaries/software-en...

[8] - https://www.lagazzettamarittima.it/2025/10/30/rixi-in-india-...

[9] - https://www.frstrategie.org/publications/defense-et-industri...

[10] - https://fr.euronews.com/business/2025/07/03/limec-deviendra-...