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Alternatively, the good ones that stay in India may not be interested in working as contractors for Westerners. India has a population of 1.3 billion - there ar
by jrowley 9y ago
Alternatively, the good ones that stay in India may not be interested in working as contractors for Westerners. India has a population of 1.3 billion - there are certainly some top of the line engineers and computer scientists there.
- simonswords82 9y agoTrue - with that many people there simply has to be talent, the question is how to find it.
- noir_lord 9y agoThat’s why it was a joke and not an assertion of fact ;).
- mc32 9y agoThere is also the culture of "making it to management". For some people being general staff is not prestigious enough, so some people pursue a managerial path and leave their programming skills behind.
- ganeshkrishnan 9y ago>the good ones that stay in India may not be interested in working as contractors for Westerners. I had plenty of brilliant IT colleagues in a nondescript small town in rural south India. Almost none of them wanted to do any contract work or even get in the rat race. They were working on porting BioShock to Mac OS and I was amazed at what they could achieve in a limited timespan
- julienfr112 9y agoVery interesting story ! Did they worked for a local firm contracting with the Bioshock publisher or a indian subsidiary of this publiesher ? How did the publisher find them out ? How did they meet and acquire their competencies ?
- ganeshkrishnan 9y agoI think Feral Interactive worked with my colleagues for the port. I was in a different team working on Android for HP Printers