what are your views on Outsourcing of Jobs?

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by sarettah@Mar 5 2004, 09:24 AM
sorry, I'm a programmer......

Difference between me and the guy in India is with me, you can bring your half baked idea and your 5 million "enhancements" that you have already decided you want, a one paragraph description of the whole thing and you will end up with a working system.

That is because (especially at the independent level) the U.S. programmer is expected to be 1. A systems designer, 2. A program designer, 3. A database designer, 4. a coder, 5. a tester, 6. your personal fucking hardware technician for the rest of your measly life, 7. your kicking bag for the life of the application.

The programmer from India is going to deliver your project to exactly your specs, which requires you to first either be a systems designer or hire one, secondly for you to be a program designer or have hired one, 3 for you to be a database designer or have hired one... 4 for you to know a fucking thing or two about hardware or have an IT staff that knows...

The Indian guy will code and test it for you....

It's called "Value Added"

There are overseas TEAMS that are pretty good.

There are great programmers in the US and some really awful ones too. We've had a dozen or so working for us over the years and there is a real range of abilities.

Maybe MikeAI has comments. He has a bunch on staff.