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Because people will quit instead of moving, and those people have very valuable institutional knowledge.

You wouldn't move people, you'd hire Indians.

(I was being sarcastic, by the way)

My guess is that most investors don't want to touch non-US companies.

thats what Zoom does, large part of their engineering is in China

Yeah.. I also wonder about how some of those other Chinese companies do it.. they must somehow be able to find talent in China.. apparently.. I mean, it's amazing..I wonder if they pay them $300k

I also wonder, I know there are a few big software companies in India.. how do they manage to build large operations without hiring $300k per year US engineers from the Bay Area? I wonder if there are actually some good engineers in India. Weird. I heard they were all bad. But I guess with 1.3 billion people they might have a couple of good programmers. Possibly. OR maybe the large Indian software/internet companies probably actually hire the best US engineers and just get by with them. That's probably actually it.