• g8phcon2@teacup.social
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    1 year ago

    Now that “everyone” works from home, a lot of companies figure it cost a lot less to hire Indians to do that than Americans.

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      1 year ago

      Did work from home start 30+ years ago? Because that is when companies started offshoring jobs on mass.

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      1 year ago

      This isn’t accurate. Outsourcing tech jobs has been a thing since the 90s. It rarely works at scale which is why it never stuck around. It’s just as risky today as it was back then.

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      Wrong timezone, wrong first language, and a corporate culture of fake-it-till-you-make-it-and-keep-faking-it-even-after-everything-failed makes that way harder than it seems at a glance. I’ve worked with a lot of great Indian developers, but those great Indian developers weren’t working at Satyam and the like.

      I mean, to me the middle-ground is obvious. Don’t outsource to India. Just outsource to Pittsburgh. Still cheaper than hiring Silicon Valley people, only 3 hours time-shift, and Yinzers speak something pretty close to English.