Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020

Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 by _IsThisRealLife on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @11:52PM (#22885884)

Probably because it is perceived to be a fairly uninformed question. It's sort of like talking about the USPS potential insolvency and someone asking how many postmen will be replaced with gig economy workers. As far as I'm aware, major leading American tech companies have never really exported jobs to India, it has been almost entirely companies that need mediocre quality work contracting out to companies that fill those contracts with workers from India or elsewhere. Without carefully developing an office, culture, and employee pipelines over 3-5+ years you carry extremely large risk outsourcing important work.

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Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 by defectbydesign on Thursday April 16, 2020 @12:57AM (#22886211)

Is it a joke?

In many industries it's not uncommon to subcontract a service by a subcontractor which himself subcontract the same service to another subcontractor (usually cheaper).

In the end it is only a question of money!

Actually top american tech companies don't have to go directly to India to get cheaper workers but instead they call american subcontractor to get cheaper workers anywhere in the world. Even more with restricted green cards thanks to Donald TRUMP. :-)

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Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 by eitally on Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:09AM (#22889508)

i don't know why you were downvoted -- you're exactly right.

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Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 by mywittyname on Thursday April 16, 2020 @12:44PM (#22891180)

It was right 10-15 years ago, but less so now. There's been a huge pushback on off-shore development in the past decade for a variety of reasons, mainly poor results, issues with time zone differences, and the negligible cost savings. Most of the big consulting firms we associate with off-shore contracting (like TATA) are supplying mostly on-shore (engineering) consultants to domestic companies (but maintaining services like help desk offshore).

Middle management got tired of having daily meetings at midnight or 6 AM, and it got too expensive to bring people over who were fine with doing so. The India job market got pretty tight around '14 or so, to the point where engineers were leaving jobs every 4-6 months for greener pastures. And even though the consulting companies are supposed to be in charge of KT, so that transitions don't impact the clients, the rate of change was just too high to maintain good quality.

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