My daughter works down at SKY as a DB architect. She was up at their Edinburgh office for about 6 months and they decided to ship out all the home based Devs and replace them with the Devs from India.
Although technically "OK" they had absolutely no idea of teamwork, organisational skills or inter-social skills when working in a live environment. The only advantage was that they wereg cheap to hire. The consequence was that they had to import more than twice the number of people to make up the shortfall in productivity and it cost them more than the in house devs had. Needless to say, the timescale for the project wasn't met and they had to ship in some of the previous members of the team at vastly inflated cost to "fix" the problem and get the project finished. If you add in the disruption time and problems that were subsequently generated then it wasn't worth while and when they suggested the same exercise at the London office where she now works it was rejected as being shall we say "unworkable". Dave -----Original Message----- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2011 09:16 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Programmers From India > > They get, uh, BROWNIE points from Obama. Please. > I am thinking it has to do with the Microsoft tools. I personally am > not "smart enough" to do Navision or .NET, so maybe a significant > portion of programmers in this country are not up to speed on these > emerging technologies. > I doubt that has much to do with it - Navision would be a fairly narrow speciality so maybe they have lots of those guys, but not .NET. I guarantee that somehow it will boil down to the usual answer - it ends up being cheaper to bus them in from India. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/bd031ecabf2b60499200aab3dbb4a9997363d...@ex-a-fpl.fpl.LOCAL ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
