> hyd low CoL
Lower than Bangalore or Gurgaon. It's easier to operate a tech company from HYD financially than in Haryana or Karnataka.
> Covid time is long gone
Well, tell that to my cousins who are still working remotely in tech from their ancestral villages in Himachal/Jammu/Punjab.
> Well, tell that to my cousins who are still working remotely in tech from their ancestral villages in Himachal/Jammu/Punjab.
What I can say is that there is no special treatment for SDEs working from India, especially regarding the WFH policy.
Amazon always had a policy to not judge candidate based on their universities. It's not new.
> expanding Dev offices to lower CoL cities like Hyderabad while slowly pivoting away from Bangalore.
Please don't call hyd low CoL if you don't know about it.
> Also, the Indian branches are fairly remote work friendly
3 days from office like all the other office.
> Now you have people earning $20-40k/yr living in their ancestral towns and villages where median incomes might be $3-5k
Covid time is long gone.