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The challenge with outsourcing is management overhead and turn around times. Biggest mistake I see my customers make is outsource and not control the quality of
by KingOfCoders 6y ago
The challenge with outsourcing is management overhead and turn around times. Biggest mistake I see my customers make is outsource and not control the quality of the engineers.
Inhouse they have a sophisticated and long recruiting process. When outsourcing they take the first they get (and as a new customer, be assured, you do not get the best engineers but you need to fight to get them).
- _red 6y ago>turn around times my company tried to outsource a ancillary product we develop in 2011-2013 timeframe. It wound up being non-viable and we brought it back in-house. I think many don't see how pernicious turn-around times can be. They continue to build upon each other like compounding interest. It can be a very very hard loop to break out of. The cycle of question -> answer -> further question -> meeting can grind progress to a halt when each iteration takes 12 hours.
- wobbly_bush 6y ago> The challenge with outsourcing This article is not talking about outsourcing but offshoring. Uber still has total control on the people, the project and rewarding the right behavior. It will just happen in India instead of the US.
- KingOfCoders 6y agoWorking for a very large tech company as a technical manager with lots of offshoring to India and outsourcing to East-Europe and the Middle-East it didn't feel there was a difference between how outsourcing and offshoring worked regarding engineer quality or turn around times. But you are right.