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The New Face of Global Competition
Valluvan writes "Here is an article in Fast Company on "The New Face of Global Competition". The article is focused on Wipro, a big IT company in India, but applies to many other companies in India that have been highly successful. A long article with some stupid errors like saying developers code with UML, but brings out the business facts well enough."
The issue I've seen with using foreign workers (we've hired plenty of them on H1b visa's, by the way) is you tend to get a large quantity of work but not always a large quality of work. Some of the software houses in India will churn out a plethora of code for cut rate prices but you're stuck with what you get.
I prefer to hire locally now, and pay a little more for someone who is concerned with their actual career, as opposed to someone who is simply shooting for a quick couple bucks and not at all concerned with the industry or the quality of their work.
This follows the classic theory taught by Mel Brooks in "The Mythical Man Month" where he talks about how you cannot draw a linear conclusion on the quality of code based upon the diagonal matrix of time vs lines written.
Warmest regards,
--Jack
Wagner LLC Consulting Co. - Getting it right the first time
MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS: THE 3RD WORLD IS COMING!
How ironic that you attempt to portray me as a racism when my point all along was that software development in India is fundamentally a "first world in the third world" (as small crust of highly educated in a small area with a good infrastructure), and that rather than pulling us down they're pulling themselves up. Here comes you screaming racist while at the same time portraying them as whoring yokels by the masses who'll take the whips to undercut North America. Take some history lessons and learn about the rise of Japan.
OH GOD IT'S ALL OVER PEOPLE! IT'S IN REVELATIONS!