Since it seems like a widely held opinion that the indian artists are taking away US DWA jobs, I would like to tell the other(Indian) side of the story. We might be doing DW work in India but its not exactly "exotic" here either. All of the work that comes from DW to DDU Bangalore is very much filtered. NO artist here gets to work on the good stuff. To all of us here, it seems that we are given only that work which is deemed as a waste of production time if done in Glendale/PDI by a US artist.
DDU Bangalore is like a factory. During my entire time at DDU, I haven't seen a single production staff member or a management person being fired. As a result, these production people roam around like they own the land and they mistreat artists and bully them by threatening to report them if someone questions their way. They have ZERO accountability. If a movie doesn't do good or if a project is postponed, why are only the artists of that project fired?..Why not even the production staff? There is a lot of dead-weight in this studio. People who are high up in position but do not know a single thing about their role. Some get by using their pretty faces and others using their asskissing skills. Some use both!
The asskissers get top positions and regular annual pay hikes here while people who stand their ground and call out whats wrong and try to do some good for their fellow artists get nothing. DDU likes to keep only those people who say all good things about their managers and HOD's , everyone else is told to shutup! We are regularly made to work long hours under the false pretense of crunchtime (which exists 24/7 364 days of the year here) so that the production managers can impress the US management by showing how much "extra" work they are getting out of us. And when its time for the annual pay hikes, a bunch of artists are gathered and fired randomly and we are then told to be thankful that we still have our jobs!
By just providing some snacks in a fancy cafeteria and Internet at the artists machines, you cannot say that there is a good work culture in DDU. A good work culture comes from mutual respect between people in an organization. A place where an artist feels welcomed and happy and doesnt have to live under constant fear and anxiety.
As I mentioned earlier, DDU currently is no more than a badly managed factory. Where the workers are threatened and bullied constantly and the management has zero accountability. Favouritism and being biased towards people who asskiss is rampant. The leadership has to understand that we deserve to be respected for what we do for the company and and expect not to be treated as cattle which are just kept in a barn until they are "transitioned outside the land to restructure the barn"