I will say that there are a few things in the article. If you go thru the
comments, you will notice the following kinds of problems being faced
by the americans..
1. Unemployed or semi employeed american SW guy blaming indians for taking
away their jobs, abt H1-B workers being slave workers, etc.. There is a
slashdot article every now and then which raises these kinda comments. And a
large audience of slashdot seems to be unemployed tech workers who are
against any outsourcing!
2. There is a big problem communicating with ppl from india (for the
americans) -- This is a real problem, but the factors that affect this most
are the distance and the timezone differences. So if you are working in a
team at one place, you can ask some1 about some code, etc. When some1 from
america tries to contact some1 from india abt this kinda problem, the answer
takes at least 1 day to come back. If not managed properly this can be a big
problem, but if done properly, you can have ppl giving bug reports before
they leave the office and have fixed code on the source repository the next
day.
3. Another problem with communication is with the specifications. When you
do work with people who are in a different timezone, country & culture, you
will face problems about what you see as your requirements in the project,
and what the other person sees them as. This is a common sw engineering
problem. The differences between america and india just makes this a bigger
problem than when you have everyone at one place.
4. People in us outsource small projects.. outsourcing works best for large
projects or when your company has an outsourcing partner who maintains a
long term relationship with you.
5. Lets face it, in india you do have lots of companies that take up
projects and then don't deliver.
I am sure that many of these problems are familiar to many of us around
here. This is just my summary of the comments that I saw in this story.
Bye,
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> There had been talks of India competing with China etc. around here
> for increasing outsourced work from US. This thread on Slashdot
> provides a *very* interesting look at the problems faced. Needless to
> say, many folks keep recommending China.
>
> http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/02/05/14/2044245.shtml?tid=156
>
>
> What is interesting is that while nobody is disagreeing with the
> amount of talent present in India(apart from the price arbitrage that
> Indian software companies feed on) their major problem is
> communication. While they do assert that India' advantage is that
> there is a high number of English speaking folks, they keep mentioning
> the poor communicating abilities on phone, on email etc. It would be
> very interesting to know what exactly is wrong - is it the accent, is
> it the fact that the english taught in our educational system stresses
> less on communication(it's primary pupose) and more on answering
> routine exam questions.
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