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I've talked about this before[0], and I'll try again. I am an Indian developer. In my previous stint, I had to maintain PHP code. It was written by a Canadian
by anuragramdasan 13y ago
I've talked about this before[0], and I'll try again.
I am an Indian developer. In my previous stint, I had to maintain PHP code. It was written by a Canadian developer. It was such a nightmare to maintain, I rewrote the code base entirely. I don't blame western developers for that. In fact the person had initially outsourced it to this particular developer because he thought western developers would write better code than Indian counterparts.
Now I work full time for a SV based company. I still am in India. No one has complained about the code yet. So can we stop generalizing and blaming all Indians for this? There are some really good programmers in India who "care about perfecting recursions".
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509220
- tluyben2 13y agoI talked about this many times before too (and here again), but Indian programmers get a bad name because the 'throw over the wall' factory line coder shops. Where 100s of coders have 1 m^2 each next to eachother; computer, headphones and working isolated by sitting like that all their working hours. No 'training' to speak off, no senior of quality helping them. And (big!) companies in the west just throw a spec over the wall and expect the result to work. This is just most of Indian outsourcing and the quality is a guaranteed drama.