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Anecdata but in my experience it's definitely true in Africa, I did a project for a Cameroonian tech company recently and they couldn't afford to compete with m
by atlasunshrugged 5y ago
Anecdata but in my experience it's definitely true in Africa, I did a project for a Cameroonian tech company recently and they couldn't afford to compete with major tech co's with remote roles which is where anyone decent and semi-senior went. They ended up with a mishmash tech team in Algeria and Ukraine mostly although they would have much preferred to hire local. I heard this story many times in the tech community there and in Kenya.
- csomar 5y agoSame in Tunisia. Remote and France have swooped practically most of the tech talent. You are forced with either mediocre developers or to pay EU rates.
- giantg2 5y agoShouldn't mediocre be generally acceptable? It seems unreal to expect the majority to be above average.
- csomar 5y agoProblem is, if you are outsourcing remotely, you want someone who is quite competent for him to be able to work on his own and pick up on the lack of face to face meetings. Mediocre as a result will give less than mediocre results or no results.
- giantg2 5y agoOr there's a need for communication. It doesn't matter if the person is "quite competent" if they're on their own building something that doesn't fit the requirements. An average dev shouldn't have any issue being able to Google the occasional problem. The vast majority of the issue we have with outsourced work is subpar English communication.
- csomar 5y ago> Or there's a need for communication. > the issue we have with outsourced work is subpar English communication. If you have good English command, you are already worth something on the Internet. Also, someone not from an English speaking country will need to pick up English by himself and practice frequently.
- giantg2 5y agoI'm not worth anything.
- RealityVoid 5y agoMy experience is mediocre is insufficient in SW preojects. You NEED some good technical pillars, else it will all be shit.
- giantg2 5y agoThen 75% of software is shit?
- RealityVoid 5y agoYes.
- giantg2 5y agoThis feels like a gross over exaggeration.
- cjbgkagh 5y agoSturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is shit
- giantg2 5y agoIsn't that law basically saying that absolutes aren't 100% accurate?
- thaumasiotes 5y agoNo. It's saying exactly what it sounds like, that most of everything is at a very low level of quality. Historically, it was a response to the argument that science fiction was a genre that didn't deserve to have any attention paid to it, because look how awful some science fiction books were. Sturgeon's response was that most science fiction books were terrible for the same reason that most work in every other genre, past, present, or future, is terrible.