Everyone's talking about how these companies are preparing for a global recession. But it's striking how specific to large tech companies. Is it possible these companies are just seeing the new remote-first paradigm as an opportunity to replace US devs with cheaper, foreign developers?
Obvious this is absurdly difficult, but it's likely more realistic now than it's ever been before.
> replace US devs with cheaper, foreign developers?
The quality of the average engineer entering Google is significantly higher than the one of an average, foreign developer. That is a generalization, but not an over generalization. I know this having worked with a sample size of ~20 on each side of the coin.
The reality is that tech cos overbites since market conditions were extremely ebullient in the tech sector circa 2021. A large fraction of those new hires never had anything productive to even do.