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IBM Moving Developer Jobs Overseas
helixcode123 writes "According to the New York Times (also on Yahoo News), IBM is planning on moving a substantial number of high level jobs overseas to 'India and other countries.' IBM argues, in essence, that they need to do this to stay competitive. The article
quotes that Forrester Research '...estimated that 450,000 computer industry jobs could be transferred abroad in the next 12 years, representing 8 percent of the nation's computer jobs.'"
My only question is, if you have questions with the code, aren't you going to need a translator for the comments?
English is the international language for software development. Most companies that have overseas work, or open operations will have business-level English speakers at hand for this stuff. We have 3 Indians here, all of whom speak excellent English (although one has an accent exactly like Apu) just for that reason.
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Exactly. This is what happens in an efficient (global) economy. A product becomes popular (computer technology) it becomes a commodity and gets cheaper, margins shrink and you look to save on costs.
The solution isn't to weep and wail and whinge, but to innovate. That's how the US got where it is in the first place. But you should understand it never stops. Free your mind and get rich!
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I beg to differ. I've sent out over 2,500 resumes since Jan 1 and actively go after many of them rather than sending a resume & sitting & waiting on the phone to ring. Most of them tell me they received over 400 resumes before they even got the office doors open at 8am because it came out in the morning paper and people wanted to get theirs in first. The others just tell me I'm overqualified without even asking me if I would work for a lower salary (which I would at this point).
With unemployment higher than it's been in decades and companies sending thousands of jobs overseas, this is a bad thing.
Dell starting sending jobs overseas this year too and my department was the very first to go. It was my early Christmas present.
I'm just spending my time off learning more *nix flavors & learning c++ & Perl.
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