>the Indians were harder workers.
OH yea. They work all the hours. They say ‘yes’ to everything. Can you do X? Yes. Will you work the weekend? Yes. Did you follow coding standards? Yes. Did you unit test the code? Yes. Where are your test results? Yes. :boggle:
Then it turns out ‘test’ effectively translates to “I got it to compile” and you need an American supervisor, an American analyst, and two American testers so your 8 Indian coders’ work actually makes it to system test without bombing your whole project, and they’ve got to be right on these guys on an hourly basis or else. Never mind such archaic American ideas as ‘creatively work through a difficulty’ or ‘do one thing extra that isn’t written in explicit requirements language that takes as long to craft as the code does.’ It’s not their fault — as a culture they’ve had it ground into them that The Boss Is Always Right and that only woe comes to people who do anything The Boss didn’t say to do.
Sure, the quality sucks, you pay through the nose for people to verify everything, and your life is the sort of hellish management that fast food line supervisors endure, but think of the savings!
(Oh, and that $17 isn’t happening even Stateside with H1-B; you’re only getting those figures with offshore crew, which means all that supervision is happening on a 10-11 hour time shift and you need another offshore manager to watch the crew over there — and they also are ‘yes’ men and need to be overseen.)
The hits just keep coming