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Because many tech companies are not looking for sweatworkers but people who fully understand the context in which the product they are working on exists...from
by rock_hard 8y ago
Because many tech companies are not looking for sweatworkers but people who fully understand the context in which the product they are working on exists...from my expierence you won’t find these folks offshore
- freddie_mercury 8y agoI don't work in the US. I guarantee you those people exist outside of the US. You think the engineering team behind Alibaba's singles day sale are just a bunch of sweat workers? You think people in Bulgaria can't understand context? Engineers in Canada can't?
- thucydidesofusa 8y agoThe same reason Alibaba isn't opening an office in the valley. Context for Alibaba means living and working in China. Context for an American employer means living in America.
- rock_hard 8y agoI should have been more clear, I meant in your typical engineering offshoring shop. Of course you can find talented engineers with product sense elsewhere...though so far a majority keeps flocking to the pacific north west.
- shaklee3 8y agoKind of backing yourself into a corner. You can find competent people anywhere, so if you are advocating remote work, just realize that there is no longer anything unique about living in the USA.
- eanzenberg 8y agoIf that were the case itd have happened already.
- Bootvis 8y agoThe old joke: Two economists walk down a road and they see a twenty dollar bill lying on the side-walk. One of them asks “is that a twenty dollar bill?” Then the other one answers “It can’t be, because someone would have picked it up already,” and they keep walking.
- eanzenberg 8y agoThe rarity of finding $20 bills on the ground, let alone smaller valued bills such as $1, proves my point.
- sooheon 8y agoWhy can't it be in the process of happening? Is there a global on/off switch somewhere?
- rock_hard 8y agoIts a moving target! Of course todays top skills will be broadly available in 10-20 years...it will all be common sense. But what ever the next frontier will be, again only a bunch of experts will exist for it.
- mdpopescu 8y agoAs a contrary anecdote, I once worked on a project where we had a method with a cyclomatic complexity of over 200. (The company had a tool that stopped counting at 200.) I was not allowed to change it, or even add tests to it, because it was written by the NY office and they would have complained about it. Bad programmers are everywhere.