Timeline for How do programmers in the West see programmers in the East?
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| Mar 2, 2011 at 7:34 | comment | added | jwenting | @Kumar: yes and no. Without such decisions there'd be no place in IT for a lot of the people working in outsourcing, but if those people offered higher quality services the image of the industry would also improve. | |
| Feb 28, 2011 at 4:23 | comment | added | Kumar | @Cosmic, you are right. And then these CEO-type guys give a bad impression to the whole ecosystem of outsourcing. | |
| Feb 27, 2011 at 19:23 | comment | added | Kaypro II | @Kumar I was trying to answer your question as to why someone would hire bad programmers in the first place. I should probably have made that more that clear. I don't know how one would tell if Google or MS were "complaining" in this case. Are we talking about the CEO-type people making public statements, or line level people with personal experience? Google and MS are also exceptional companies, and I think it's difficult to generalize from them. I think the typical outsourcing decision (onshore and offshore) is made for reasons of cost with little attention or understanding of quality. | |
| Feb 26, 2011 at 10:32 | comment | added | Kumar | @Cosmic I do not see Google, Yahoo!, AOL or MS making any complains about poor quality of programmers, they hire best talent and get the best out of them, hire the crap regardless of east or west and you get crap. | |
| Feb 26, 2011 at 0:26 | comment | added | Kaypro II | "Why would western hemisphere outsource to east?" - Because the people who make the decisions aren't really in the best position to make good ones. We're talking about executive-level managers with executive-summary levels of understanding, preoccupations with budgets and money, and a short term time-horizons. | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 4:03 | comment | added | Kumar | I understand. And those who make decisions are managers, if a manager doesn't know or understand the project triangle, he/she is incompetent. Ideally their incompetency must not result in a stereotype but NTP(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_temperature_and_pressure) conditions only exist in labs not in real world. | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 7:30 | comment | added | jwenting | "If you outsource to eastern parts of the globe just to save bucks you are, IMO, compromising quality. Good, fast and cheap, choose any two." Often those making the outsourcing decision don't know or care about quality, as long as they get something that works for a while cheaply... | |
| S Feb 24, 2011 at 2:59 | history | answered | Kumar | CC BY-SA 2.5 | |
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