This isn’t accurate. Outsourcing tech jobs has been a thing since the 90s. It rarely works at scale which is why it never stuck around. It’s just as risky today as it was back then.
Wrong timezone, wrong first language, and a corporate culture of fake-it-till-you-make-it-and-keep-faking-it-even-after-everything-failed makes that way harder than it seems at a glance. I’ve worked with a lot of great Indian developers, but those great Indian developers weren’t working at Satyam and the like.
I mean, to me the middle-ground is obvious. Don’t outsource to India. Just outsource to Pittsburgh. Still cheaper than hiring Silicon Valley people, only 3 hours time-shift, and Yinzers speak something pretty close to English.
Now that “everyone” works from home, a lot of companies figure it cost a lot less to hire Indians to do that than Americans.
Did work from home start 30+ years ago? Because that is when companies started offshoring jobs on mass.
This isn’t accurate. Outsourcing tech jobs has been a thing since the 90s. It rarely works at scale which is why it never stuck around. It’s just as risky today as it was back then.
Wrong timezone, wrong first language, and a corporate culture of fake-it-till-you-make-it-and-keep-faking-it-even-after-everything-failed makes that way harder than it seems at a glance. I’ve worked with a lot of great Indian developers, but those great Indian developers weren’t working at Satyam and the like.
I mean, to me the middle-ground is obvious. Don’t outsource to India. Just outsource to Pittsburgh. Still cheaper than hiring Silicon Valley people, only 3 hours time-shift, and Yinzers speak something pretty close to English.