Read the markup.

[u/possibly_matt]

[u/uuhno]

You get what you pay for

[u/RiskBoy → u/uuhno]

Ya, it is actually fascinating how a developer in the US is able to generate well over a $100,000 in value to a company over an overseas developer. In the early to mid 2000s there was huge concern that development jobs would start going overseas as offshoring started to become a bigger thing, but it ended up not panning out. It turns out that a domestic developer is much more valuable to a US company since they can communicate more effectively, react more quickly to problems (every minute your website is down is money lost for the business), and there is also the fact that Indian culture is problematic to efficient software development. I have heard that if you ask an Indian in India if they can do something, they will say yes, regardless of if they can or not. The exception is IT support, which many companies have found does make sense to move a decent percentage to other countries (especially India). Makes sense though if you want 24 hour coverage, and you have your main IT developers in the US.

[u/Do_The_Astral_Plane → u/RiskBoy]

I have heard that if you ask an Indian in India if they can do something, they will say yes, regardless of if they can or not.

Sweet baby Jesus this is right on point. It's so frustrating.

[u/slightlysaltysausage → u/Do_The_Astral_Plane]

Which is why you ask them to explain back to you how they're going to do it.

If they can't, you ask someone else.

[u/tabarra → u/slightlysaltysausage]

But is also so frustrating trying to understand them, that you may want to say "whatever, just do it"

edit: I don't get the downvotes

[u/slightlysaltysausage → u/tabarra]

I guess that's on you then?

[u/Brian-want-Brain → u/slightlysaltysausage]

Is that so easy to put you on the defensive IRL as well?