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I think it is not as simple as that. Many companies have tried to move their development to India for example (I have a second hand anecdotal evidence from one
by nojokes 6y ago
I think it is not as simple as that.
Many companies have tried to move their development to India for example (I have a second hand anecdotal evidence from one) and it is not as simple as it seems.
There are huge cultural differences, meaning what is considered not acceptable in the west is common practice somewhere else like getting degree for bribes etc. You have to know how to navigate in such environment.
You may think that because your company employs people from multiple cultural backgrounds then the environment of the company is multicultural.
In reality the culture of the company is most likely following the protestant work ethics (it is my generalization, there are of course variations and exceptions).
- joelbluminator 6y agoWell, even in Canada / UK / Australia / Germany software developer salaries are about 50% less than in America. There's nothing in terms of workforce education or productivity dictating companies should pay the American 2x more. Offshoring is difficult for small companies to do (taxes, accountants etc) but any unicorn startup has the means to do it.
- snicker7 6y agoProbably has more to do with the cost of doing business in these countries. High taxation / regulation has a real cost.
- joelbluminator 6y agoI think there was no real need to cut on costs for a lot of companies. If every startup can raise 100-200 million easily because of these very low interest rates, why would they care about trying to save 10 million dollars a year in wages? Money is not a problem for them. Who needed the headache of working remote, offshoring etc? But now that some of them were forced to go remote and they saw productivity wasn't hurt, arguably maybe even improved (up for debate of course), they might rethink the whole issue.