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For IT dev work, how on earth are people in UK/US/Europe/OZ/NZ going to compete with low-cost devs based in India and Africa ? I see this problem in quote offe

• simonbarker87 6y ago
  Native same language communication skills and same time zone are a big deal for some companies/people. Similar to why there are a variety of options for most services.
• brtkdotse 6y ago
  Have you ever actually tried using the low-cost option on Fiverr? They results are, quite frankly, un-usable. The good ones know their worth and charge accordingly. Simillary, I worked for a Swedish-based multinational that nearshored some of their dev-work to Poland. Well guess what, so did Hertz and Deutche Bank and Ryan Air and a bunch of other multinationals and suddenly the 50% cheaper dev work was down to 10% cheaper. People won't settle for peanuts just because they're living in a low-COL area, they'll want to get paid what they're worth as well.
• jtdev 6y ago
  I’ve worked with many offshore devs over the last decade and really do have a great deal of respect for these folks. That said, in my experience you get maybe 1/10th of the useful output from cheap offshore devs as compared to mid-level U.S. and Canada based devs.