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Comment by raverbashing | Hacker News Reader

The real question is why does Twitter need 3 offices in India

It seems the whole company is freewheeling

Lots of Indians in tech work their way into management and then try to bring home the bacon back to India. They continue identifying as Indian nationals even after going through grad school, green card, etc. You may not have noticed but there was/is a large wave of placing Indians in executive positions at tech companies, so I don't see why this is so mysterious. Did people think they were going to open offices in Omaha?

Until they get US citizenship they do remain Indian nationals. And for Indian origin people it can easily take 10-15 years after graduation to get US citizenship.

Also identifying with India and actually going back and living in India are two vastly different things. Most of them will talk and plan but never leave for India as facilities, money and comfort of the first world will be just too much leave. Of course some of them may go for CEO/very senior position to establish office in India and then come back after some time.

Green card holders and those seeking permanent resident status have presumably announced their intent to become Americans. If they are trying to use their position in America to send jobs and offices back to India then that's their power that corporations have given them. But, they should lose their green card and/or visa as a result because their loyalties are obviously not to the US. They just want a green card to exploit American businesses, not to become a citizen.

What is mysterious is the fact that's 3 offices

It's likely to be sales office or a government relations office.

Sales.

The headline says "shuts down engineering office" so it sounds like it is engineering rather than sales.

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