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In my experience there is a correlation there. Low-cost outsourced code is generally pretty bad.
by silent_cal 3y ago
In my experience there is a correlation there. Low-cost outsourced code is generally pretty bad.
- Smeevy 3y agoNot that you intimated this, but I don't know that it's necessarily a problem with the people writing the code. What I've seen is that organizations that try to save money by offshoring are not providing adequate domain knowledge or usable requirements to the developers. Throw in a massive timezone difference and every misunderstanding winds up living in your system.
- silent_cal 3y agoThat could be. However I think the language barrier is also a significant factor. But of course there is nothing inherently problematic about offshore developers.
- cityofdelusion 3y agoI've had to deal with offshores my entire career and have even flown out to train them up. They are good people, but almost universally, they contract for U.S. companies via large body shops (you know who they are) that have awful pay, poor treatment of developers, and just a general culture of half-assing work. I've told various great offshore developers personally to leave as fast as possible and join literally any other organization for way more pay. Good developers have zero business working at those body shops that all the U.S. corps utilize.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoCulture issues do exist. IME different cultures have very different approaches to communicating e.g. “I don’t know” or “I made a mistake”. Not everyone in a particular culture acts the same, but it definitely affects the average outcome.
- initplus 3y agoIt’s not a problem with individual offshore engineers. The problem is the way the business they are employed by operate.
- rramadass 3y agoFalse. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700806
- silent_cal 3y agoMy experience is false? Ok..
- rramadass 3y agoCorrelation is the inference that you draw from your experience which can absolutely be wrong.
- silent_cal 3y agoCorrelation is the inference I draw from my experience? That's one of the more nonsensical things I've ever heard.
- rramadass 3y agoPerhaps a course in "Inferential Statistics/Statistical Inference" is in order here.
- silent_cal 3y agoI've taken several graduate courses in statistics. That's how I know this makes no sense at all.
- rramadass 3y ago> several graduate courses in statistics. Ha, Ha, Ha!