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There's high turnover because India isn't a WLB focused society like Europe is.

Compensation / status is bimodal due to the lower end of IT jobs being < 15k USD/yr, and higher end easily exceeding 100K USD/yr.

The pressure to reach the higher end (> 60k USD/yr I guess) is immense and there's lot of competition, average junior in India does 500+ leetcode, this is because hiring metrics also scale with population.




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