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Anecdotal but I was recently contracting for a place that was developing web software for the first time. Even though I had pretty much wrote all the code on t
by mattm 15y ago
Anecdotal but I was recently contracting for a place that was developing web software for the first time. Even though I had pretty much wrote all the code on their system with them having hired and gone through 5 other programmers, the comment that caused me to leave was
"Why are we paying this guy when we could just hire someone from high school for $10/hr?"
- noarchy 15y agoYou can also outsource the task to India for a similar amount, or even less, and get someone who will be better than a high schooler. That's the thing that should make some North American developers nervous.
- mattm 15y agoI don't know about that. I've been approached a number of times by people who tried to outsource cheaply to India or China and then realised half-way through the project it was a mess and now they needed someone to try and salvage it. It doesn't make me nervous at all. If someone wants to hire developers to build a complex system at $10/hr then I encourage them to do it and see how it goes.