I think the big underlying problem is how big corporations do not know how to handle developing code at different locations around the country and especially the world. I just quit a large multinational corporation that has started offices in India, Poland, China, all the usual places. They do not understand how much it really costs them in coordination, support, and other issues like integration. All they know is the people work for $X/hr, no one ever figures the actual cost. Funny how open source groups can be so successful and big corps can screw it up so bad.
Take it from a engineering professional, the rate at which engineering is being off-shored is staggering. One reason so many of these companies have layoffs is becuse they just opened a facility in China and hired as many engineers as they needed. China is graduating over 100,000 engineers a year that work for wages less than $400/mo. How can the US compete with that? Business is business and saving money is what they are all about. People at my company constantly ask senior management about reversing or slowing offshoring and they just say too bad, get used to it. Take my advice go into system engineering and back it up with a business degree, that will be the only important engineering left in the US until the wages in other countries rises.
I am working on devices that my company owns the patents on to detect anthrax (or any biological agent) real-time. Now if only we could get some government contract (or a VC for that matter) to fund us. I would hate for some of this to escape their facilities.
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I think the big underlying problem is how big corporations do not know how to handle developing code at different locations around the country and especially the world. I just quit a large multinational corporation that has started offices in India, Poland, China, all the usual places. They do not understand how much it really costs them in coordination, support, and other issues like integration. All they know is the people work for $X/hr, no one ever figures the actual cost. Funny how open source groups can be so successful and big corps can screw it up so bad.
Take it from a engineering professional, the rate at which engineering is being off-shored is staggering. One reason so many of these companies have layoffs is becuse they just opened a facility in China and hired as many engineers as they needed. China is graduating over 100,000 engineers a year that work for wages less than $400/mo. How can the US compete with that? Business is business and saving money is what they are all about. People at my company constantly ask senior management about reversing or slowing offshoring and they just say too bad, get used to it. Take my advice go into system engineering and back it up with a business degree, that will be the only important engineering left in the US until the wages in other countries rises.
I am working on devices that my company owns the patents on to detect anthrax (or any biological agent) real-time. Now if only we could get some government contract (or a VC for that matter) to fund us. I would hate for some of this to escape their facilities.