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we’ve been hiring for these roles since last year I believe?

I just saw a bunch of India roles when searching Wayfair and folks on Blind were saying that they're outsourcing a lot to India so it seemed to confirm that idea but perhaps it is unrelated to recent layoffs

<@U06906NK8S3> You have spent at WF a long time. Is this newly found India push is only about the cost or the management got changed or and India based hub was always on the horizon?

good question, zeta. hard to tell to be honest

i wasn't a part of these discussions historically so i don't have much high level context to share i am afraid

just curious about the driving forces and how that will work on the long run.

my rough _guess_ is that the technology team will likely be split between NA and IN

what ratio exactly that looks like is likely fluid over time

i wouldn't be surprised if it lands on 60% - NA and 40% - IN

If you look at the <https://www.wayfair.com/careers/jobs?keywords=software+engineer&amp;locationIds=&amp;stateIds=&amp;countryIds=|"Wayfair Careers" page> and you search for, say, "Software Engineer", I can see 33 results for software engineer positions. 28 of those are in Bangalore, India. 3 of them are in Boston, 1 is in Austin, and 1 is in Toronto, but all but 2 of them are junior roles, and those two are mid-level (SWEII).

<@U06906NK8S3> What is NA? Non-applicable? IN I assume is India

I guess this is also related to how WF failed to capture a good position on the EU/German market

after all, wayfair doesn't have a customer market presence in India

But yeah it was kind of visible in the last year that there will be a big shift towards India in engineering sourcing

I have some ideas :) I agree with you Jordan on the market presence. I am not an accountat but would be cool to see how tax and moving fin assets around steer those decisions

From my past experience with other businesses:

If a company opens an office in Bangalore, expect a TREMENDOUS cost cutting followup.