[quote=eyePod]You can get under $30/hr (for 1000s of hours) for high end Software, Firmware, and Hardware engineers. So yes, it is out there at those rates in India if you look for it. Not that it has anything to do with the dopey recruiter, but someone mentioned India.[/quote]

Those aren’t ‘high end’ anything. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve billed fixing stuff that was outsourced either offshore to India or to body shops full of H1B’s in the states. The quality isn’t even proportional to the cost. It’s WAY worse value for the dollar.