The resounding theme in nearly all these stories is the same--cheaper, but not usually better. What you guys said--same story at my last gig (Sylvan). Same in every detail. Stupid move, mgmt!
On 9/21/2011 4:54 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: > 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. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ 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/4e79da64.9020...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com ** 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.
