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when the work is remote we don’t need remote-california to save 10% on wages. we will go to remote-ukraine or estonia and hire twice as many engineers
by foolfoolz 6y ago
when the work is remote we don’t need remote-california to save 10% on wages. we will go to remote-ukraine or estonia and hire twice as many engineers
- thothamon 6y agoAnd then you would be committing the classic blunder. Putting more engineers on a late project makes it later.
- freyir 6y agoCompanies could already outsource their development to Estonia or Ukraine (and done do) but there are many hidden costs to this.
- sjg007 6y agoThey already do!! Still not enough engineers.
- jimbokun 6y agoYou are really late to this party, this has been happening since the late 90s.
- giantrobot 6y agoAs talented as the Ukrainian or Estonian engineers might be you're unlikely to see any real savings over time. Just scheduling things a full work day apart in time zones is really difficult. Effectively communicating is even more difficult. Then there's stupid little shit like one machine in a remote office set to a different locale than the main office that breaks things in stupid ways. Engineering throughput definitely doesn't scale linearly with the size of the engineering team. Good on you for never having managed to have heard of Fred Brooks though.