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Krakow is a big tech center, is in the EU, and it's not obvious why moving jobs there would have anything to do with a drop in quality.
by idlewords 9y ago
Krakow is a big tech center, is in the EU, and it's not obvious why moving jobs there would have anything to do with a drop in quality.
- markonen 9y agoIt's not about Krakow per se. But when a company works towards specific targets like "90/10 supplier offshore ratio", rather than metrics based on quality or efficiency, I don't think quality comes first.
- idlewords 9y agoI agree with you on that. But I had to stick up for Krakow!
- prodmerc 9y agoRelax, it's better if everyone thinks Krakow (and Poland) is a "third world shithole". Nobody's worried about it until it's too late :D
- tajen 9y agoOn the one hand I've never seen a successful project with non-colocated teams, whether 300km away or 10.000km away. On the other hand, I'm surprised a airplane company is so much localized in UK.
- methyl 9y agoBasecamp
- brianwawok 9y agoAny distributed startup. There are thousands.
- blibble 9y agoif the offshored personnel work via a bodyshop then the incentives are completely different compared to direct employees, and the resulting work is considerably lower quality (at least in my experience) if offshored personnel are direct employees it's a completely different story given the main cost saving comes from being able to "ramp the size of the pool up and down to meet demand" most large companies opt for the bodyshop solution...
- mtkd 9y agoreplace a long established (expensive) team on a complex app who know all the bear-traps with an offshore team of rent-a-coders with a 6 month average turnover rate but at half the price - wcgw
- wetha 9y agoWhat makes Krakow inherently better than say, Bangalore? Not snark, just asking.
- taway_1212 9y agoMuch more friendly timezone (1 h from London, 6 h from East Coast). I'd also say the accent is easier on the ears, but I might be biased since I'm Polish ;) Also, it only takes 2-3 years on average in Polish civil courts to resolve a dispute (as opposed to supposedly decades in India) - in case you want to sue your services provider.
- matteo789 9y agoWork ethic and the ability to say 'No'. Have you ever worked with the Indians, dude ??
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