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devandro

I have a hard time relating to most stuff here, would love some India specific advice

Most of the discussions in this sub seem just distant to me. Earning western minimum wage in India would put you in the top 1% here, by a very wide margin. There aren't any great colleges here, a handful of good local startups and a few branches of foreign companies that are almost impossible to get into. So, I'm guessing we could all benefit from hearing each others trials and tribulations.

I'd love to hear some experiences, general advice etc. What are you all doing, fellow Indians? Where do you work? How much $$? How long have you been working? Where'd you get your degree? Plans for the future? Share the highs and the lows :)

Posted Nov 4, 2017, 3:46 PM UTC · edited

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akesh45•

Quora is where all the Indian tech people hang out.

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butterChickenBiryani•

Quora sucks compared to Reddit.

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nutrechtConsultant Developer•

Most of the discussions in this sub seem just distant to me.

This sub is mostly focussed on the US since most of the visitors here are from the US. There's a CS careers sub focussed on the EU so maybe there's one focused on India too. If not; why not start one? :)

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butterChickenBiryani•

so maybe there's one focused on India too. If not; why not start one?

TBH, a LOT of the advice given for US applies to the small number of high paying CS jobs in India (Atleast the technical stuff// gotta be careful with the cultural stuff. Refusing to share your last salary, reneging on offers and resigning on short notice can actually have consequences here) . And people applying to the rest of them arent spending time on Reddit

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dgaa1991•

Could you throw a link to the EU sub? ;)

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nutrechtConsultant Developer•

r/cscareerquestionsEU

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FrontendMaster•

High: Job switch with 100% pay hike

Low: How long I stayed at the previous job... Frog is a biling water situation, hadnt realized how bad it had got. Also the one time I almost got a job in US, but froze up on an extremely trivial question, throwing it away

You mean this one pays 100% more than your last job? Or that you have an offer for double your current salary?

Where were you before Amazon?

*Also, boiling water :-)

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butterChickenBiryani•

This one pays 100% more :) I don't have the skills or degrees required for the companies which pay another 50-60% more though :/

I was in a SDE role in Microsoft IT .

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devandroOP•

Amazon

:O How?

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butterChickenBiryani•

Recruiter reached out, cleared the interview using a lot of advice from this sub.

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devandroOP•

Recruiter reached out

How does that work? Where did they find out about you? How did they contact you? Nobody every "reaches out" to me (despite having a portfolio website, popular github repos, plenty of side projects and active stack overflow account)

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butterChickenBiryani•

That's the part where cscq and India differ. Here Recruiters reach out to people based on their current company,not based on GitHub,or your portfolio,stack overflow,etc. For instance,there is a particular Adobe recruiter who mass messages every Microsoft employee in my city around October with a direct invite for an interview event.. for recruiters,your current company matters and is the basis for them to contact you

Of course,you can also reach out to recruiters or apply via referrals.

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GeneralSkyKiller•

Try r/India

They have lots of discussions similar to this.

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CriticDangerSoftware Engineer•

The best way in your case is to work remotely, build a good portfolio that showcases good mastery of English and programming and find remote jobs/contracts.

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lemonade311•

Earning western minimum wage in India would put you in the top 1% here

Well, no this isn't really the case because cost of living is much lower in india. The top 1% in just about any country will live a lot better than min wage earners in western countries

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Ilovepirateunity•

woosh

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butterChickenBiryani•

I would put ourselves in the upper middle class at best.

I realize that you didnt know how much your father earned, but it depends a lot on whether he was saving a large chunk of money or not. If you're spending 100% of income in a countryw ithout a social security net, you're setting yourself up for a bad retirement

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TriumphxdSoftware Engineer•

I mean if you are talking pre tax money that's pretty meaningless.

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OrangePi314•

I’d much rather work a minimum wage job in the US over being a top 1% earner in India.

India is mostly poor people and being a high earner there isn’t very good. Besides, you have some major infrastructure problems there such as daily power cuts, and traffic that makes driving through Manhattan sound fun.

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hwarzeneggerboxxx•

I have lived in all the following places: Posh New Delhi, Poor New Delhi, Lower MNH, Upper East side MNH and Dubai. Being an Indian myself, I'd argue that you are much better off being a top 1% earner in India than working a min. wage job here in the US. (I study in Illinois). I liked MNH a lot but really for someone who is an Indian and who cannot come to the US, living in India is leaps and bounds better. Also, minimum wage in the US - are you serious? Being a minimum age worker here in the US sucks!

Either you haven't been to India in a while or you have no idea what you are talking about.

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SharKCS11•

Agreed. India is a fantastic place to live if you have a lot of money. Obviously the average standard of life is going to be higher in a more developed nation like the US, but if you're a top 1% earner in India, you can likely replicate, and maybe exceed that standard of living because the relative cost is lower.

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