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I say this as the whitest white man ever, so please correct me if I'm being discriminatory. I understand it's also a culture issue. India has a culture of neve
by malfist 4y ago
I say this as the whitest white man ever, so please correct me if I'm being discriminatory.
I understand it's also a culture issue. India has a culture of never telling clients "no" for anything, even if they know they can't do it. So you ask for something insanely complex, and your contractor in India will throw a mountain of buggy code at you. I wouldn't be surprise if that's also the issue here.
- oauea 4y agoNoticed the same thing. Even implying that what management wanted wasn't realistic would make them incredibly uncomfortable.
- ubermonkey 4y agoWe had some Indian devs in a subsidiary for years, and that absolutely tracks. Cross-cultural communication is an actual field of study, you know? But in this case, with the unwillingness to say "no", it's a killer. We ended up cutting them loose because even though they were cheaper per hour than US-based resources, we couldn't make the progress we needed to make. One US dev because 3, and that became a whole team, and that's how we decided to continue.
- satvikpendem 4y agoI've heard it as Asian cultures in general, being conformist. For example, I've heard the same from Japanese devs who have to save the face of their superiors, and in Chinese manufacturing as well.