"This strikes me as the same rhetoric Microsoft uses to demand each year more visas for foreign talent,"
whoa there! I didn't mean to spout any "rhetoric", least of all anything to deprive any devs (I am one myself, and have worked in the USA, before choosing to come back to Bangalore) of a decent wage. Just reporting on what I see here,because I thought it might add some value to the discussion. Feel free to add the word "perceived" before "shortage" if that makes you more comfortable.
I'll put it this way, If as a startup founder if you want to hire m very high quality developers with n $ ( I make no judgement as to what the "right" value of n should be) it may make sense to also consider assembling a remote team. Nowhere did I make the argument that you would save money by doing this.
My points are orthogonal to whatever MS's lobbyists say to your senators. And the people I were talking about (really good devs who choose to live in India. All of them have worked in the USA/Europe and could work there again any time they choose) are making from 60 k$ (Java enterprise dev) to 100k$ (embedded/kernel/hardware dev) so I am not sure how much money their employers save (though I am sure they do save some)
whoa there! I didn't mean to spout any "rhetoric", least of all anything to deprive any devs (I am one myself, and have worked in the USA, before choosing to come back to Bangalore) of a decent wage. Just reporting on what I see here,because I thought it might add some value to the discussion. Feel free to add the word "perceived" before "shortage" if that makes you more comfortable.
I'll put it this way, If as a startup founder if you want to hire m very high quality developers with n $ ( I make no judgement as to what the "right" value of n should be) it may make sense to also consider assembling a remote team. Nowhere did I make the argument that you would save money by doing this.
My points are orthogonal to whatever MS's lobbyists say to your senators. And the people I were talking about (really good devs who choose to live in India. All of them have worked in the USA/Europe and could work there again any time they choose) are making from 60 k$ (Java enterprise dev) to 100k$ (embedded/kernel/hardware dev) so I am not sure how much money their employers save (though I am sure they do save some)