India has way too little native job creation for the population size it has of young folks entering the job market. There's a reason the largest Indian tech startups are basically gig marketplaces or some variation of that (Zomato, Swiggy, Meesho, Zepto, etc).
The other alternative is working entry-level at the usual WITCH BPO companies, where the starting pay is ridiculously low for the hours worked - even lower than a gig worker.
Manufacturing jobs are far too few and scattered across the country, and there's no way to actively recruit for them most of the time.
And of course, the lucky ones get to work for an American company in a swanky office because of more jobs being shifted there. Perhaps they'll get to work on a novel software system for aircraft stabilization like MCAS (true story).
