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If you're an engineer in India with skills that mirror those of American engineers, why would you settle for a significantly lower pay?

The best Indian engineers I've worked with all made their way over to the US OR knew how much they were worth and set their rates SLIGHTLY below US salaries.

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Top Indian talent did go to the US by default, but that peaked ~10 years ago. Nowadays there is enough opportunity in India - and the US immigration process is bad enough - that most people I know just don't bother. The visa backlog is almost entirely made up of the tech equivalent of minimum wage workers, all sponsored by Infosys/TCS and other consulting firms.

And the "SLIGHTLY below US salaries" part is an exaggeration. Top talent in India is still at most a third of the high-end Silicon Valley rate.

most of America is significantly below the high-end of Silicon Valley rate.

Yes but the article is about the latter.

Top talent is still going at 1/3.

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