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Ask HN: What is your opinion about hiring full-stack engineers from Bangalore?

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Question is mainly from seed stage start-up POV. Off-late, salaries for tech-jobs in Bangalore, India have skyrocketed. Is this situation same everywhere? Often engineers re-negotiate salaries based on other offers (and few reject at last minute). Not great response for stock options. Instead, many prefer fixed salary.

Should we consider hiring-remote? Is this a good option for early stage start-ups. We founders felt its good to work under a roof to ensure good handshake on all active threads. Any inputs on this are appreciated.

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Your question begs questions. Did you expect Bangalore to remain cheap compared to other places? Why?

What do you think it means, when people want high fixed salary and not stock options?

I work for a non-startup in the NFP sector, we've hired a lot of Indian heritage labour, they're great. But, so are people from under the sea, Mars, Africa. I don't care where you come from if you have the chops. It's a mistake to assume all Russian graduates are maths wizards, All Chinese are spies, All Indian degrees come from a degree-mill. "it depends"

Hiring remote early stage of anything is a huge risk. bandwidth to communicate isn't as good as f2f but you can re-cast this as "be highly specific what you want from remote workers" -There is also a time compression effect of their work hours being offset from yours, for some people. It can be really beneficial in hours-to-complete terms, but .. communication long line sucks.

(I should be clear your questions were read as implicitly devaluing labour from India. If you didn't mean that, I apologize)

your questions were read as implicitly devaluing labour from India >> Sorry, I if my statements looked that way. I am from Bangalore. And I didn't intend to undermine any.

Thanks for inputs. Agree, remote hiring has a bigger communication overhead + cost in terms of work hours alignment.

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