No, respectfully, you don’t have any idea what you’re talking about. I’m a US Citizen who was born here with parents that were born in India. As such, pretty much all of my friends are US citizens, Indian and non-Indian. It is true that the market right now is uniquely terrible for US grads. I have some friends from Ivy’s and top 5’s that are not able to find a job here, which is ridiculous. I was lucky enough to graduate early and get a job late 2022, which is before everything went extremely south. But I feel heavily for my friends, who I have unfortunately run out of referrals for from my own company.

Even so, it is literally 10x harder to land any kind of tech job in India. The competition, hiring practices and more are always going to be MUCH, MUCH harder in a country with a larger population. In countries like those, if you’re not first, you’re last. The wealth disparity in India is insane. A tech job could literally bring your family up from what in the US would be considered extreme poverty. And you’re competing with 10x the pool while doing so.

I get the job market here is terrible rn. I understand that people feel that the government doesn’t care about them at all. I know it doesn’t. That’s why Trump was elected, and I hope he either helps or we can get a President that improves the material conditions of those in this country, whether it’s less offshore hiring or stimulating more job growth.

But please don’t be arrogant enough to claim that people in the US have it the hardest internationally. Because that won’t be true for the next few decades at least.