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the whole idea of "just moving the jobs offshore" doesn't really come out to be as simple as you have equated here. there's often time zone differences, cultura
by maximente 8y ago
the whole idea of "just moving the jobs offshore" doesn't really come out to be as simple as you have equated here. there's often time zone differences, cultural difference, a simple inability to do work (e.g. anything requiring access to physical infrastructure, any client-facing meetings, etc.)
it's not like you can flip a switch and get a fully functioning setup, even with something like development.
we've seen this charade with foxconn, amazon, etc. turns out that the whole "highest bidder competitions" turn out to be not-so-thinly veiled con jobs where basically everyone but the corp loses aside from some marginal people like property holders.
- niyazpk 8y agoI was under the impression that Amazon has a large portion of its engineering talent outside the US.
- maximente 8y agothat's a pretty nice red herring you've introduced there my friend! you haven't addressed any of the points i've brought up, but instead introduced a very tangential (possibly true) fact. reflect for a moment on what i've said above. you are introducing a dichotomy that isn't accurate and justifying it by saying "something is better than nothing", which is the same corporate rationale for having a .000001% tax rate, states going crazy to attract huge companies, and so forth.
- sudosteph 8y agoWho told you that? That was not my experience at all working there a few years back. Even for global teams like AWS engineering support, the US offices easily tripled the international ones in number of engineers. I knew exactly one team based in Germany, but that was only because AWS acquired that product and team.