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I worked for a company that was given a free 1 month trial of 1 dev guy out of india. We had a custom PHP framework (http://www.sinapse.org/ http://www.sinapse
by kleevr 18y ago
I worked for a company that was given a free 1 month trial of 1 dev guy out of india. We had a custom PHP framework (http://www.sinapse.org/ http://www.sinapse.org/), and he jumped in and started pumping out code pretty quick. When you looked at his pages, he was "accomplishing" his tasks, but his code was so inconsistent and completely outside the framework (it was all one-off-spaghetti-code-hell), so at the end of the month we had to throw everything out. We didn't outsource again.
- lkozma 18y agotalk of anecdotal evidence
- ajross 18y agoIndeed. There are bad coders everywhere. The problem with outsourcing is generic: you're hiring consultants, not hackers. There are "good" consultants out there, but even the best of them are basically bean counters. And no doubt there are plenty of great Indian hackers out there, but they're not on the consulting market.
- kleevr 18y agoI would add the only reason we tried it in the first place is that it was a free offer. So we weren't really "serious shoppers", and did not shop around.