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Could you share what speciality was shipped to Ukraine?

hirako2000 5y ago
Plenty of specialities are shipped to Eastern Europe. Ukraine being a well appreciated destination due to general grasp of English among young population, and hard working good engineers. Like the specialities we see delocolised to India, php ecommerce dev/customisation is one. And the whole enterprise j2ee kind of stuff, platform development. And also mobile dev has become popularly outsourced to Ukraine. The software industry is seeing the same thing as what happened to factory industries. First the specialities that are least challenging to manage offshore, then eating the rest of the profession, leaving some niche I suppose like we still produce certain type of clothes, furniture and electronics in the well developed countries. I've lived in several countries where outsourcing is common, it's always the same schema. Flocks of non very competent wanna be tech riches launch businesses of hiring cheaper labour with the promise to deliver quality projects. In the end it's a mess of a code base, but client see the bill as more digestive than hiring a team of people with all the tax and high social benefits to pay without any guarantee that anything will work in the end. I don't know how the outsourcing hype will end given the difficulty to streamline software development. There is little cultural/message loss when sewing t-shirt with a logo and well defined patterns on them, all designed by an artist and industrialists in Paris or Milan. The translation of digital application which spans across multiple type of devices, on terminals and multiple servers, constantly evolving to quickly adapt to business needs is another story. But hey maybe we will rather have somewhat satisfying software made abroad for cheap and guaranteed further unemployment locally than pay what is worth and have products well fit for purposes. Edit: typos

hirako2000 5y ago

Plenty of specialities are shipped to Eastern Europe. Ukraine being a well appreciated destination due to general grasp of English among young population, and hard working good engineers. Like the specialities we see delocolised to India, php ecommerce dev/customisation is one. And the whole enterprise j2ee kind of stuff, platform development. And also mobile dev has become popularly outsourced to Ukraine. The software industry is seeing the same thing as what happened to factory industries. First the specialities that are least challenging to manage offshore, then eating the rest of the profession, leaving some niche I suppose like we still produce certain type of clothes, furniture and electronics in the well developed countries. I've lived in several countries where outsourcing is common, it's always the same schema. Flocks of non very competent wanna be tech riches launch businesses of hiring cheaper labour with the promise to deliver quality projects. In the end it's a mess of a code base, but client see the bill as more digestive than hiring a team of people with all the tax and high social benefits to pay without any guarantee that anything will work in the end. I don't know how the outsourcing hype will end given the difficulty to streamline software development. There is little cultural/message loss when sewing t-shirt with a logo and well defined patterns on them, all designed by an artist and industrialists in Paris or Milan. The translation of digital application which spans across multiple type of devices, on terminals and multiple servers, constantly evolving to quickly adapt to business needs is another story. But hey maybe we will rather have somewhat satisfying software made abroad for cheap and guaranteed further unemployment locally than pay what is worth and have products well fit for purposes. Edit: typos