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I'm(34F) an Indian project manager working with teams in India and Europe. Over the last few years, I've seen European companies move more and more engineering work to India through GCCs/GSCs. The reason is obvious ofc the cost. A team in India can be significantly cheaper than a similar team in Europe.

On paper, it's a huge win for India. More jobs, more investment, bigger teams.

But after working closely with both sides i could see soo much difference in the quality of engineering.

For example, in one project, I had a developer with around 12 years of experience who couldn't explain why a particular service was designed the way it was. When I asked whether he'd considered a different approach, his answer was basically "This is how we've always done it."

Another time we had a production issue caused by a fairly obvious database bottleneck. The team had been working on the system for years, but nobody had really looked at the underlying query performance. We ended up bringing in someone from another team who identified the problem in a couple of hours.These aren't isolated incidents in my experience.

I've also seen developers with 10–15 years of experience who haven't really learned anything outside the technologies used in their current project. They're good at completing their assigned tickets, but if you ask them about newer architecture patterns, cloud services, AI tools or even why they're making a particular technical decision, there's often very little depth.

I have a fresher who has one year experience now and he joined as an intern in our team. He basically does the same amount of work if not more than people with 15 yoe in the team. Sometimes even faster and smarter using AI. So what even is the point of all that experience you boast about when you can solve an out of the box problem.

And I don't think it's entirely their fault.

A lot of us didn't enter IT because we genuinely loved engineering. We entered because it was a stable, well paying career. There's nothing wrong with that. But if your only motivation is salary, it's very easy to stop learning once you're comfortable.

AI has made this even more obvious.

I've literally seen developers take an AI generated solution, make a couple of minor changes, and put it up for review without fully understanding it. When someone asks why the code works that way, the answer is sometimes "AI suggested this approach."

That's scary.

AI should make a good engineer faster. It shouldn't replace the engineer's brain.The fun part of engineering debugging something difficult, understanding how a system actually works, challenging an approach, finding a better solution seems to be disappearing.

I've seen people spend 10–15 years in the same company working on roughly the same stack. They're comfortable, their salary is decent, and everything is fine until suddenly the project is moved or the company restructures.

Then they start interviewing and realise the market has moved on.Their CV says "15 years of experience" .But the market is asking, What can you actually do today?"

This is also where I think some of the GCC growth could backfire.

If companies move work to India purely because engineers are cheaper, but don't build strong engineering cultures, we risk becoming a low cost implementation centre instead of becoming a serious engineering hub.

I genuinely want the GCC boom to succeed. I'm Indian, I work here, and I want to see Indian engineers doing high value engineering rather than just taking tickets from Europe.

But writing code is becoming cheaper. Good engineering isn't.

Curious to hear from people working in Indian IT especially those with 10–15 years of experience.

Are you seeing the same thing in your teams? Or am I completely off here?

I'm a influencer and kind of model sometimes too I have a descent following on insta.My content is mostly traditional outfits, fashion, fit checks, and occasionally dancing to trends. Nothing on my account is sexual or vulgar.

I’ve been dating a guy for around two months. He has some political connections/influence, which is part of why this situation is making me even more nervous.

During our relationship, we became intimate and consensuall, recorded some private videos together. I agreed to being recorded at the time and trusted him completely. Obviously I never agreed to those videos being shared with anyone.

We recently broke up because his behavior became increasingly controlling, possessive, and toxic. Since the breakup he has started making comments that make me uncomfortable. At one point he basically implied that if I don't get back together with him, he could leak the videos.

When I confronted him about it he brushed it off and said he was "just kidding" and that he would never actually hurt me. But then he makes another comment later that sounds like a threat again.

I genuinely don't know whether he's bluffing or whether he would actually do it if he doesn't get what he wants. The fact that he has the videos and knows that I'm worried about my reputation makes me feel like he has something he can use to control me.

I'm scared to tell people around me because I'm worried about the consequences and the amount of attention this could bring. I'm also wondering whether I should involve the police or a lawyer now, even though he hasn't actually posted anything yet.

For anyone who has dealt with something similar what should I do right now? Should I preserve the messages and report the threats before anything is leaked? And is there anything I can do to make sure the videos can't be distributed?

I don't want to get back together with someone just because I'm afraid of what he might do. I just want to handle this safely and legally before the situation gets worse.

I'm a influencer and kind of model sometimes too I have a descent following on insta.My content is mostly traditional outfits, fashion, fit checks, and occasionally dancing to trends. Nothing on my account is sexual or vulgar.

I’ve been dating a guy for around two months. He has some political connections/influence, which is part of why this situation is making me even more nervous.

During our relationship, we became intimate and consensuall, recorded some private videos together. I agreed to being recorded at the time and trusted him completely. Obviously I never agreed to those videos being shared with anyone.

We recently broke up because his behavior became increasingly controlling, possessive, and toxic. Since the breakup he has started making comments that make me uncomfortable. At one point he basically implied that if I don't get back together with him, he could leak the videos.

When I confronted him about it he brushed it off and said he was "just kidding" and that he would never actually hurt me. But then he makes another comment later that sounds like a threat again.

I genuinely don't know whether he's bluffing or whether he would actually do it if he doesn't get what he wants. The fact that he has the videos and knows that I'm worried about my reputation makes me feel like he has something he can use to control me.

I'm scared to tell people around me because I'm worried about the consequences and the amount of attention this could bring. I'm also wondering whether I should involve the police or a lawyer now, even though he hasn't actually posted anything yet.

For anyone who has dealt with something similar what should I do right now? Should I preserve the messages and report the threats before anything is leaked? And is there anything I can do to make sure the videos can't be distributed?

I don't want to get back together with someone just because I'm afraid of what he might do. I just want to handle this safely and legally before the situation gets worse.