No, it's cheaper because of huge difference in cost of living.

$10,000/month may not go far in SV, but in parts of India, you can live like a king, literally, with servants and such.

Rent for a studio apartment in India will cost less than $200. I'm not kidding. But a similar space in SV can cost 10 times more of that.

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

No, it’s the right one, I removed controversial sentence

It is cheaper because the cost of living and running an office are significantly cheaper than that of SV. Indian engineers are not always bad engineers that write low quality code.

> How is code quality control in India?

Depends on the devs and the kind of team they are working in. It's difficult to provide an objective answer to that question.

You pay peanuts and you get monkeys (and 4chan-esque racist memes, for the rest of us).