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Managing a Global Programming Team?

Posted by Cliff on from the telecommuting-taken-to-the-extreme dept.

cwimmer asks: "I work for a technology company in the United States who survived the economic slowdown by trimming fat where necessary. Unfortunately, it seems that my small programming team must've looked like mostly fat to management: it has been trimmed from a high of 5 to the current 2. We have been given a very large programming project that we estimated would take 4 coders (the size of the team at the time) 6 months to deliver. I have been given deep pockets with regard to moving some or all of the project to an offshore partner, and I can probably get 4 or 5 programmers in India. Does anyone have any pointers on managing a team of programmers on the other side of the world?"

5 of 671 comments (clear)

  1. Re:As an unemployeed american programmer.... by GiorgioG · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    I'll 2nd that "Fuck You"

    So much for american pride.

  2. Can't you just get H1B visa like everyone else? by nikko · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can have best of both worlds! Pay them $20k, and have them live in one of the utility closets in the office.

  3. If they write their code like they run their count by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 1, Flamebait



    You get what you pay for. You're getting rid of 1 American worker and replacing them with half a dozen Hindu programmers that incur 10x the overhead, 10x the work delays, 10x the debugging time and 10x the communication costs compared to having someone on-site. Do the math.

    By the way, fuck you and your company for shipping American jobs offshore, especially at a time when hundreds of thousands of American programmers Who coincedentally, speak ENGLISH, can follow instructions, dont work 12,000 miles away and code responsibly remain unemployed due to this kind of shit.

    Also, incase no one else mentions it, You're next. Once they realize you can be replaced with a six-pack of Hindu team leads, you're as good as gone.

    Sometime tells me its time to unionize.

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    Bowie J. Poag

  4. Re:flamebait? by micq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Damnit, I swore I had some mod points around here... ugh, here we go...

    ... funny +1
    ... insightful +1
    ... A well formed "Fuck You and the horse you rode in on" message without using the words "Fuck", "and", "horse", "rode", "in", and "on" ... +priceless.

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  5. Re:regardless. by NDPTAL85 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only problem with that is that programmers ARE interchangeable like lego blocks.

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