Take anything people with titles like "Asia-Pacific chief" say with a lot of grains of salt. They are used to making sweeping generalizations that only reflect

Take anything people with titles like "Asia-Pacific chief" say with a lot of grains of salt. They are used to making sweeping generalizations that only reflect their own view of something and often has little to do with reality or statistics. You can easily find people who will work in dev cycles of years if you give them a $250k+, a good private office, and perks that are usually seen in so-called "Hipster Rubyist" shops like flexible timings. The problem is that companies with a dev cycle of years tend to also expect their programmers to swipe in a time card every day, sit at a shitty desk with a shitty chair, and drink Folgers coffee. Then their "chief" whines saying "We can't find any programmers!".