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You would not want an IT job in India - they're terrible. You're a lemming. Lots of programmers in India, very few hackers. At the high end, the very few interesting jobs, you're competing with the finest minds in India - and you'll probably lose.

But its a good place to do some serious hacking, if you've saved up money stateside, or have a consulting gig. I posted a bit about doing product development in India here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532825

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"You would not want an IT job in India - they're terrible."

This is largely true. There are good jobs - one of my friends just got a job programming text to speech systems in scheme, and that her first job just out of school - but they are very rare. But most "IT" jobs in India suck for sure.

exactly. that's partly because most boring bit and pieces of IT are outsourced to Indian IT majors.

Yes, very true. A typical IT job would make you cry for help, make you wonder the purpose of life and make you feel doubtful if all your 16 odd years of education (school + college) were worth it.

Typically you are expected to work late at nights debugging someone else's code or doing trivial stuff.

Luckily, I am working on computer adaptive tests which is uber cool.

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