I read the same article and I have to wonder if the author and the government are talking about the United States. I am so sick and tired of the lies! My company constantly offers sound bites to the media that " we only offshore 40 jobs ". Everyone who works with me knows this is a complete lie, it's more like 4000+ jobs if not more. Our IT area went from 1000 people to 640 within the last two years and the makeup of that 640 is 450 Indian (Cognizant and Tata) offshore consultants and 190 employees, seems like more than 3%. My own development area went from 17 developers and 1 manager to 3 developers and 1 manager. Is the company getting its money's worth? Does it get good service? Depends on who you talk to because almost everyone lies since no one wants to tell upper management, for fear of losing their jobs, that it isn't working because upper management have so deluded themselves that it is. What are the benefits of using Indian offshore consultants? It currently keeps me employed because the other remaining developers and I are constantly rewriting their code. I have to create specs for them to work from that have to be so detailed that I could create the program faster myself. Also no matter what you define for them to do they are always adding " coding enhancements " for our " best interests ", sort of like saying " look how smart I am courtesy of IIT ", of course this goes back into doing the rewrites. It's pathetic because they are learning at our expense, of all the offshore developers I have dealt with they are really no better than junior programmers, you get what you pay for. Do you really want to have fun?, try a Knowledge Transfer Session. This is where you have to take everything you know and have done for the duration of your employment and condense it down into documentation in order to give a presentation to your Indian replacements, then have a Q&A with them about it until your last day of employment. Of course it's also perfectly okay that what you did before you could do alone but now they need four people to do the same job since you've been terminated. I've had to painfully watch many of my colleagues go through this experience; these were good, intelligent people whose lives were ruined by greed. That's the bottom line of offshoring, greed. I would like to know who is going to purchase the goods and services when the U.S. starts looking like India and we're all making 25 cents a day? If offshoring is such a great thing then why do companies lie and try to hide it like my employer does and most others do? These surveys and reports simply play with the numbers, if it wasn't so sad it would be a joke!
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I read the same article and I have to wonder if the author and the government are talking about the United States. I am so sick and tired of the lies! My company constantly offers sound bites to the media that " we only offshore 40 jobs ". Everyone who works with me knows this is a complete lie, it's more like 4000+ jobs if not more. Our IT area went from 1000 people to 640 within the last two years and the makeup of that 640 is 450 Indian (Cognizant and Tata) offshore consultants and 190 employees, seems like more than 3%. My own development area went from 17 developers and 1 manager to 3 developers and 1 manager. Is the company getting its money's worth? Does it get good service? Depends on who you talk to because almost everyone lies since no one wants to tell upper management, for fear of losing their jobs, that it isn't working because upper management have so deluded themselves that it is. What are the benefits of using Indian offshore consultants? It currently keeps me employed because the other remaining developers and I are constantly rewriting their code. I have to create specs for them to work from that have to be so detailed that I could create the program faster myself. Also no matter what you define for them to do they are always adding " coding enhancements " for our " best interests ", sort of like saying " look how smart I am courtesy of IIT ", of course this goes back into doing the rewrites. It's pathetic because they are learning at our expense, of all the offshore developers I have dealt with they are really no better than junior programmers, you get what you pay for. Do you really want to have fun?, try a Knowledge Transfer Session. This is where you have to take everything you know and have done for the duration of your employment and condense it down into documentation in order to give a presentation to your Indian replacements, then have a Q&A with them about it until your last day of employment. Of course it's also perfectly okay that what you did before you could do alone but now they need four people to do the same job since you've been terminated. I've had to painfully watch many of my colleagues go through this experience; these were good, intelligent people whose lives were ruined by greed. That's the bottom line of offshoring, greed. I would like to know who is going to purchase the goods and services when the U.S. starts looking like India and we're all making 25 cents a day? If offshoring is such a great thing then why do companies lie and try to hide it like my employer does and most others do? These surveys and reports simply play with the numbers, if it wasn't so sad it would be a joke!