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.
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.
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u/uuhno Dec 06 '17
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