FWIW, as someone who grew up in western India (but not Mumbai, another city/state), my personal experience is very similar to what the author described in the article.

Any data to support your claim? From my anecdotal experience, having lived in both the India and the US, I haven't ever felt that there was anything lacking in terms of receiving world class healthcare in India.

That's because the US doesn't have world class healthcare either.

I think here the main issue was that the company hired programmers without any kind of actual technical screening. It kind of seems quite likely that in this case they would end up hiring developers, that they would come to regret later.

Questions like what you code for fun or what technical sites you browse are all fine as supplementary discussion points, but they are in no ways going to be indicative of whether the person knows how to code, unless you actually ask them to code.

how can you code for fun and not know how to code.

Never really knew about Fermat's library. From skimming it looks like a really great idea, especially for reading papers in areas you may not be that familiar with.

Yes, its one of my favorite papers. Thanks for the pointers, very useful.

- 13" 2015 Macbook pro with 2 external monitors (34" and 24") mostly used to ssh to a powerful 16 core ec2 instance (amazon linux), which is where I do all my development

- iterm2 with tmux and oh-my-zsh

- mostly vim / clion / intellij based on what I am coding atm.

Often some stuff is sold by third party dealers and shipped by Amazon. I suspect that is probably the case for the Macbook. Amazon typically has much lesser control over such sales, and would need to adhere to the dealer's policies.