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25 pointscyrksoft9 comments

"Apple is aggressively stepping up its India-based manufacturing efforts as it seeks to move away from supply chain concentration in China".

The keyword here is "concentration" ( I am ignoring the whole anti-China rhetoric) but concentration risk of any kind is what most businesses try to avoid. That is why your friendly tax department has a dozen different software vendors and so on.

Amazing how they can just “hire 10,000 people”. Impossible to wrap my head around that.

Bengaluru/Bangalore, where Wistron is reportedly hiring has a population of about 12 million people and has ~60-70 engineering colleges so whatever the requirements are for hiring 10,000 people it isn't much of a stretch :). In addition, inter-state migration is common so.. 10k not so big a number really.

Source : Born and raised in Bengaluru.

Based on this related article: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/17/apple-wistron-hiring-10...

The plant is going to specialize in PCB assembly. Think less about highly skilled engineers going over designs in a silicon valley campus and more like this Foxconn assembly line: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/05/iphone-assembly-line-at-f...

10,000 people that can follow basic instructions and show up to work in a warehouse isn't that hard to find in a highly populated country like India.

More amazing when you realize India's labor laws start becoming cumbersome when you hire more than 100 workers in a single factory (you need to take government permission to fire redundant workers). Maybe they found creative ways around that.

What's so amazing about it?

I agonize over hiring one person. Also, it’s not like hiring extras in a movie. These are skilled workers.

The higher level organization required for an effort like this isn’t comprehensible to me. Like you say, hiring a single person is hard enough... how do you get it right ten thousand times over? This is mission critical stuff, too.

Honest question - do companies tend to over hire in scenarios like this, then design with loads to distribute well so if say... 25% of hires don’t work well, the job can still be done? Is that absurd?

Most high skilled jobs in the world like your neurosurgeon or the engineers at your local nuclear power station assume your skillset based on educational qualifications. Only IT conducts a tech interview on a whiteboard and hires people without proper education.

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