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Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the talk-to-the-bobs dept.

ErichTheRed writes: A company called Cengage Learning now joins the Toys 'R Us, Disney and Southern California Edison IT offshoring club. Apparently, even IT workers in low-cost parts of the country are too expensive and their work is being sent to Cognizant, one of the largest H-1B visa users. As a final insult, the article describes a pretty humiliating termination process was used. Is it time to think about a professional organization before IT goes the way of manufacturing?

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  1. Re:No by sociocapitalist · · Score: 1, Troll

    "We do all the design work in the US, because our 250+ Indian counterparts cannot design anything correctly. They code by trial and error. You'll never have a best-in-class product that way. We just give them menial coding tasks, and even then 1 US engineer is as productive as 3 in India. "

    You mean like Japan awhile ago and China, more recently, for manufacturing?

    Got news for you - they're not stupid and they can learn to design as well as we can.

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