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Ah yes, the outsourcing FUD train is ramping up. Remote work has been a possibility for employers for a few decades now. Nothing has drastically changed since

Ah yes, the outsourcing FUD train is ramping up. Remote work has been a possibility for employers for a few decades now. Nothing has drastically changed since the new wave of WFH to change that, other than its more widely discussed. > 50%(and sometimes as much as 80%) is there a source for this? I'm not convinced that the only reason "everything gets outsourced" hasn't happened yet is because employers are lazy.

Consultant32452 6y ago
I have an anecdata. I work for a fortune 500 financial company. I am personally acquainted with someone who transitioned from our offshore (India) team to the US. His salary went up 3x doing the same job with the same title, and all he changed was geography.
- mjburgess 6y ago
  He also changed his cost of living.
  - ajmurmann 6y ago
    Salaries aren't based on cost of living, but on cost of labor. Those are related, but not tightly.
robbyking 6y ago
I worked as what would now be considered a full stack developer during the dotcom bubble (and bust), and during that time thousands of engineering jobs were outsourced overseas. There were a couple main issues that I'd be curious to see if modern development teams would be able to overcome: * The communication lag. When developers are working opposite hours from the rest of the team, small issues can take a day or longer to resolve. Even simple stuff like "can I cut the branch or is your feature not QA ready?" * Rigidity. Specs are almost always incomplete (or inaccurate) in one way or another, and remote developers who aren't familiar with a company's product and goals have a difficult time distinguishing between what a product owners wants and what they ask for. These aren't insurmountable issues, but they were the two things that really slowed things down for the teams I worked with.

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Ah yes, the outsourcing FUD train is ramping up. Remote work has been a possibility for employers for a few decades now. Nothing has drastically changed since

by protonimitate 6y ago

Consultant32452 6y ago
I have an anecdata. I work for a fortune 500 financial company. I am personally acquainted with someone who transitioned from our offshore (India) team to the US. His salary went up 3x doing the same job with the same title, and all he changed was geography.
- mjburgess 6y ago
  He also changed his cost of living.
  - ajmurmann 6y ago
    Salaries aren't based on cost of living, but on cost of labor. Those are related, but not tightly.
robbyking 6y ago
I worked as what would now be considered a full stack developer during the dotcom bubble (and bust), and during that time thousands of engineering jobs were outsourced overseas. There were a couple main issues that I'd be curious to see if modern development teams would be able to overcome: * The communication lag. When developers are working opposite hours from the rest of the team, small issues can take a day or longer to resolve. Even simple stuff like "can I cut the branch or is your feature not QA ready?" * Rigidity. Specs are almost always incomplete (or inaccurate) in one way or another, and remote developers who aren't familiar with a company's product and goals have a difficult time distinguishing between what a product owners wants and what they ask for. These aren't insurmountable issues, but they were the two things that really slowed things down for the teams I worked with.