Exactly. So many of the younger guys can write some really abstract object oriented, overly complicated stuff that they pull off of CodeProject which after 3 months they don’t understand either. It is like they just refuse to write a simple data access layer without having to slow it down with 2-3 layers of model forming objects to “make the data more workable”, I find it has just the opposite effect. I also don’t get wanting to use all these newer interpreted languages like Python and Ruby, yeah they may make you implement faster but do you know what it is doing. After all it is still a C++ compiler (or some other older language) underneath.
I also have a great dislike for the offshore coder trend. Indians especially are the worst. Book smart, but have no real world applicable ability. Asians and a couple outfits out of Israel on the other hand, those guys can design and code. I have not been impressed by an eastern European stuff either.
I cannot wait to get out of it.
I know a guy who's made a very, very good living at remediating code that's been done incompetently by offshore workers (usually Indians).
Approximately, Company 'A' sends coding projects offshore because it saves so much cash. In a few months, or years, they find that indeed, "You get what you pay for" and sack the offshore contractors.
Meanwhile, the company is now reliant on this critical bit of software that only works sporadically, if at all.
My friend then comes in, and for a fee that is roughly double what it would have been for him to code it all fresh to start with .... fixes the problems while whistling all the way to the bank.
I've worked for companies where communications were poor between management and the programmers that were sitting literally next to them. I've no idea why management would look at that, then say "Let's get coders from a completely different culture, move them to the other side of the globe, and put three layers of project managers between them and us. That'll fix it! What could go wrong?"