Re:Amazon Academy India
by blackbear_ on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:08AM
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So essentially... Cheap workers?
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True! But more like finding a new efficient frontier for talent.
https://www.mbaskool.com/business-concepts/operations-logist...
Re:Amazon Academy India
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @10:51PM
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Developing and nurturing human capital doesn't necessarily depress the value of labor...it could also create more demand for such labor (by expanding the economy), evening things out.
Re:Amazon Academy India
by nine_zeros on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:10AM
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No. More consumers who will choose amazon over competing e-commerce marketplaces.
Re:Amazon Academy India
by asdfasdpljtl on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:15AM
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You realize most FAANG jobs in India are low-level ones the Americans couldn't be bothered with right ?
Re:Amazon Academy India
by kinkrtyavimoodh on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @02:19PM
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No they are not. The average job profile might be a bit lower but FAANG has plenty of high paying job opportunities in India.
Can't speak for other FAANGs but this is definitely not true of Amazon India. They have teams working on everything from Alexa to new AWS services, and of course retail as well. Not to mention Amazon India itself which is pretty unique and innovative in its own ways. Amazon also pays a lot compared to most other tech employers in India - a lot less than Amazon US of course, but it's still not just "cheap labour".
They are?
I haven't worked for FAANG but I've certainly seen a lot of India tech jobs hired by American companies that I wouldn't consider "low-level ones the Americans couldn't be bothered with".