alt Hacker News> Pay in India is still severely (seriously low, with 12-14+ hour workdays, even more than the 996 culture of China) low for most people.
My employer outsources some work to Indian contractors. I know how much we are paying the contracting firm, which is low. Knowing the firm takes a cut before the contractors are paid, I feel terrible for how little they are compensated. I frequently wonder if we’d get better output if we paid more.
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__s • yesterday at 12:50 PM
Yes, you would (speaking from experience)
kevin_thibedeau • yesterday at 3:01 PM
I worked for a company that created an Indian subsidiary to cut out the middlemen. The results were the same.
Avoid middlemen in India.. sorry for the word, but they are the biggest leechers. We hate them too here.
India is filled with small one-room service-based companies(the middlemens') that hire interns, for ZERO pay, make them work 12-14 hour days under extremely "humiliating" conditions and then when it comes to giving them internship completion certificate, they demand huge sums of money just to release them... think about it.
As for how you are gonna do without the middlemen, I dont have the anwer yet... ideas are welcome.