[No.6]

"You know what happens next? Your company will simply outsource development to India. It's easily done, and India resources can undercut American programmers by 50%.

My company sells Indian outsourcing, and we're doing very well right now."

Too bad the Indian programmers don't understand requirements, meet bare minimum standards for programming, and leave code in their wake that is not documented, badly coded, and often requires complete rework.

But, hey, that doesn't bother you, since by then you're three contracts down the road, raking in the $ with your sweatshop H1B workers.

So the net cost of the foreign worker is higher. I have AMPLE experience behind this, since where I work the trend is: start a project, bring on 80 H1Bs to code like mad, fire them all when the rush coding phase is done, and depend on the old hands to fix the many many many bugs.

[sinkspur]

Too bad the Indian programmers don't understand requirements, meet bare minimum standards for programming, and leave code in their wake that is not documented, badly coded, and often requires complete rework.

The Indian programmers understand the requirements because we put American project managers in place who are scrupulous about defining every detail.

Our subsidiary is Level 5 certified which, if you know anything about software certification, is the highest level achieveable.

All code done by our subsidiaries is fully documented, and we do post-project audits at 30 days, 45 days, 60 days, and 90 days.

We've had to do no rework; in fact, our repeat business from existing customers is nearly 75%.

As I said, our company does not use H1-B programmers. All of our programmers are in India, South Africa, the Phillipines or Malaysia and program via a secure ISL link.

I'm talking about offshore outsourcing, not H1-B.