My tenure at a BigCo came to an end recently-ish and in the 2 years before I left I saw:
- multiples of new openings in LatAm/India vs Domestic
- increasing use off offshore staffing firms even on big name stuff
- presumed increase in offshore teams based on my random heuristic of clicking usernames making recent posts in various Slack channels "team: $FOO, Location: Bangalore" and etc. The volume here was much higher than last year, and far higher than it was in the years prior.
- lots of open internal talk about "leveraging partners"
Majority of the work I did was working with private sector F500s and the extent to which those companies outsourced IT/Software was staggering. I encountered several major companies that had basically no "actual" IT/Software in the States: outside of a handful of meeting-takers the actual implementation work was almost 100% outsourced/staff-aug via H1B shops.
The talk about "AI" taking jobs is a total distraction from the actual source of the jobs disappearing.