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People have been saying this since I was in high school post dot com bubble burst. “Don’t get into IT or software development it’s all going to be outsourced.”

• u678u 5y ago
  Its true though. 75% of my IT dept are outsourcers - or those who used to work for such companies.
• vsskanth 5y ago
  The software field expanded so much that there is a massive need for both in-house developers for tech firms and outsourcing for traditional businesses with legacy systems like banks, insurance etc.
• jason0597 5y ago
  Outsourcing is not exclusive to India. What if they outsource to Italy? Spain? Ukraine? Greece? Hell even Germany. All of those places have salaries that are a fraction of the typical US salary. US salaries are incredibly ridiculous on the global stage. And all of those places with actually good developers
  • Apocryphon 5y ago
    Then why hasn't this been happening in significant amounts to impact the U.S. software job market in the past thirty years?
  • ArkanExplorer 5y ago
    Those places have payroll taxes in the realm of 30-70%, and high progressive income taxes. The overall labour cost is similar. American developers are just lucky that they live in a low-tax society.
• cwkoss 5y ago
  In my experience, outsourced code is almost always harder to maintain and I haven't seen example of successful outsourcing of ongoing code maintenance. I'm sure there's a lot of variance, but I don't think "outsourced everything" will be practical for most software businesses that place importance on quality of service. Outsourcing can be great for developing a green-field new initiative, but at some point the in house folks are going to need to learn the new codebase so they can fix bugs, scale, and keep the lights on.
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