Company is offshoring all roles to India: is this happening elsewhere?

It’s happening everywhere.

The small company I work for didn’t consider replacing any development jobs with staff from India, but rather augmenting existing staff. That idea was nixed after it was determined that we’d most likely have to hire 5-7 Indian “senior” developers to do what one of our existing devs could achieve, and that’d also have to bring on 2-3 additional technical leads to manage this offshore staff.

In the end, there would’ve been no cost savings and development velocity would’ve likely plummeted.

I put the word “senior” in quotes because in India, someone senior does not resemble what that term means in the US. In America, “senior” means that the person has generally 8-10+ years of experience, can take on large projects with little outside guidance, and needs nearly no training in their areas of expertise.

In India, however, “senior” most often means only that they’ve heard of the technology and can speak about it for a 30-second soundbite. Most “senior” Indian IT/dev staff I would not put on Level 1 helpdesk for the tech they claim to know.

And if that offends you, so be it. That comes from deep and long experience.