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I think what OP means is this: the tech ecosystem in places like Bangalore is booming more than anywhere else and the good programmers in India have amazing opportunities to make good money or are in career paths that heads to a position earning in a stronger currency, and so its hard to find rock star Indian candidates on these platforms.

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If you go in not understanding the culture, there's also some traps you can run into. The Indian devs I've worked with are often hesitant to say "no" or "I don't know". You have to be able to work out the difference between an enthusiastic "yes" and a less enthusiastic one.

Of course, every culture has it's quirks. I'd avoid the specific reference and stereotype and just say that working with devs from a culture you're not familiar with can be challenging.

Not sure if you're serious, but I'm fairly certain that is NOT what OP meant.

Um.. you do realize that the only difference between the Indian engineers at Google or VMWare in California, and some of the the guys working out of India is that the latter didnt do an MS or get a visa sponsored? Take the sharpest Indian dev you know in Palo Alto -- for every one of him, there are like five guys like that back home working on offshore Engineering teams. They are not doing php on Upwork.

> I find hard to trust elance, upwrok and similar as it's either super-developer-guy or random-indian-guy

Still that's not what the OP meant. As i agree tech is booming in Bangalore and all, the reference here is the opposite connotation to the super developer guy. While i don't disagree that there are people who put a WP and make money, avoiding stereotyping is good for everyone.

I suspect it's hard to hire Californian rock star developers on the low-bidder driven platforms as well for exactly the same reasons.

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