Y! is hiring & Where is the next YouTube going to come from
What a cliched title, Y! was always hiring ( Interested ? - See this ). In fact every firm in Bangalore is hiring ( right from Indian research labs of companies like Microsoft to the neighbourhood retail chain. Coming to think of it .. i am not so sure the new generation ( people who have been employed in the last half a decade ) has seen any down turns. This is kind of dangerous .. because a downturn if and when it happens will hit people really really hard.
Everything is on an up - salaries, real estate prices, dining out costs .. and if we follow a simple rule that what has gone up .. must come down .. then in a few years ..when we dont continue growing at unbelievable rates of 8-9 % ..It is going to be hard. Till then .. party hard folks .. live like there is no tomorrow.
On the topic of salaries, have actually heard of a few programmers who have been made offers to the tune of US $ 65000 ( Mind you .. convert that compensation into rupees .. that is salary in India. Heck … whats happening .
I see everything changing … but not a single facebook or youtube was engineered in Bangalore or Hyderabad or .. any other "wannabe" Indian, Silicon Valley. Drats .. that brings me to the topic .. Is it possible to build a killer consumer website or tool or s/w product that would be engineered entirely in India. My opinion is that engineering is no longer a bottleneck. A youtube could have so easily been engineered in bangalore and launched from bangalore .. Probably the bottleneck is somewhere else.
