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Re:What the IBM Layoffs Look Like by SandB0x on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:10PM (#11262349)
How was the quality of the outsourced work? Did they find an existing software house in India and send them specs a deadlines? Did they hire individuals?
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Re:What the IBM Layoffs Look Like by PierreRochard on Thursday March 10, 2016 @06:52PM (#11263532)
They weren't outsourcing software development work, they were outsourcing the manual task of checking PDFs against XLS files. The quality wasn't the problem, the throughput and cost are. I wrote an app that parsed the PDFs but no manager wanted to learn Python to review the code, so they told me to move on :(
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Re:What the IBM Layoffs Look Like by tomashertus on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:48PM (#11262670)
This is one example of outsourced work(CSS code) to Asia:

.scanResultsTable th:first-child+th+th+th{padding-right: 30px; text-align: right; width: 35%;}

Don't do it guys, really don't....

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Re:What the IBM Layoffs Look Like by pavanky on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:19PM (#11262936)
That's not generalizing anything at all.
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Re:What the IBM Layoffs Look Like by gizmodo59 on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:19PM (#11267956)
Its hard to digest this level of logic at a site like HN.
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