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I think the US:south India for companies like Intuit (as opposed to FANG) is down to 3:1 or less. And closing steadily.

I wonder at what ratio, it will not make much financial sense to outsource to India. For example, for us, we can get folks in Ireland for less than half than the U.S. Much lower for eastern and central Europe. The time zone difference is more favorable than India. Quality of work is generally better as well.

I love the US/Pacific IST difference two windows for interaction each day. On the other hand Europe is very hard to work with.

And the actual reason to hire in more cities is to find the precious resource of brilliant people. Cost savings is prima facie short term, but the folks who can solve hard problems with beautiful code is worth a lot.

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