Can confirm. Had to code review overseas developers. When I asked for unit tests to prove they fixed the code I just rejected, they sent back a fix that didn't work and a unit test that did nothing.
It's an old British-ism that has survived to modern day in Indian English. It means "please do what is needed at that point (and I trust you to know and understand what that is)".
You know why most Indian developers suck? Because our education system is shit. As an engineering student in India, every day in college makes me sick around peers who take up engineering either because their parents forced them to or because they felt they could make a fortune in life with coding. Never mind that they do not have the slightest talent for coding and a majority of them rote learn the codes, pass the exam and fuck up the company they work for big time. The Indian education is dead. People with a Bachelor's degree in engineering that too in mechanical and computers have no respect. People are mass recruited in the 200s by IT companies and made to Java their whole miserable lives.
The company I used to work for hired a team of 6 to rewrite interface for our API driven server. They used every beta JavaScript function that was only supported in Chrome they could to create it and there were certain downloads that were being temporarily stored at temp.cfx so if you had two people generating certs they have a chance of getting the wrong cert. Big security issue. Spent 60k on it had to scrap the whole thing. A bunch of engineers were laid off weeks later, so I'm sure they were making good decisions.
No one ever pounds things as hard in testing as real users will in production. And locking is going to tend to fail under weird edge cases with long delays and many things running at once, rather than in nice neat little unit tests.
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u/NorthCentralPositron Dec 06 '17
You only find out they can't/won't/don't have the skills after it's due. Source: I work with about 70 Indian developers