On: GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired

[xiaodai]

indian developers are extraordinarily talented. it's just more convenient to give up on them in one go. good luck to github for hiring in india again in the future. very short-sighted

[Fervicus → xiaodai]

That's a broad generalization. I have worked with a few great and plenty of terrible Indian devs.

[Supermancho → Fervicus]

Anecdotally, from at least 2005 to 2015, every single India-based team had negative productivity output across the 5 SoCal companies I worked for, as an engineer. At 4 of the companies, the India teams were liquidated during my tenure. In 2 cases, one or two top performers were cherry picked out and brought to the US on work visas. These individuals each became US citizens, in time. They are awesome and they are still good friends of mine.

[satvikpendem → Supermancho]

So continues the brain drain, it's quite a legitimate problem, at least as I've seen it with my other Indian friends.

[thunkshift1 → Supermancho]

Anecdotally, the us teams I have worked with are surprisingly bureaucratic and super bloated. The reason they were NOT liquidated was because they controlled the purse strings.