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Re:GitHub slashes engineering team in India by crop_rotation on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:36AM (#35341813)
Because the US is an outlier. People are comparing to UK and Canada. Compared to UK India is similarly expensive enough.

Nobody is claiming India is expensive when compared to the US.

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Re:GitHub slashes engineering team in India by prakhar897 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:54AM (#35342091)
UK salaries are 75k$ for SDE1, 165k$ for SDE2. Roughly 2x Indian compensation. EU region also has strong labor laws.
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Re:GitHub slashes engineering team in India by coffeebeqn on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:51AM (#35343049)
> UK salaries are 75k$ for SDE1, 165k$ for SDE2

They’re definitely not. Where are you getting this? Divide by three

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Re:GitHub slashes engineering team in India by Balero on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:06PM (#35343271)
UK engineers are earning much over £20k a year, even outside of London. Amazons site says: SDE1 is on a low of £45,653 which is $56,344.02 SDE2 is on £70,703 which is $87,257.47

So somewhere between you both.

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Re:GitHub slashes engineering team in India by iaseiadit on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:03PM (#35343224)
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-en...

Filtering on UK gives total comp of $60k-$200k+ at Amazon

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