Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines

Re:Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines by jister on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:07AM (#12929341)

"But conversely, the Microsoft stack that I worked in and we were increasingly unifying around in Pfizer was simply much harder to find competence in"

That's probably because the developers that are strong in Microsoft stack were already out of the country most likely pirated by companies in Singapore or in other parts of the world. Majors banks in Singapore had been pirating IT people in Philippines from QA to Project Managers for years.

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Re:Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines by _0nac on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:53AM (#12929580)

Did you mean "poached"? You can't pirate people...

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Re:Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines by rwallace on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:13PM (#12932880)

Let's not tolerate the use of "poached" either; it implies (in a "ha ha, only serious") way that people are property, and it's been a long time since there was any excuse for tolerating that idea. The proper words are "hired" or "recruited".

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Re:Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines by bulatb on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:39PM (#12933047)

It also implies it's somehow wrong to offer an employee of another firm a better deal than they're currently getting.

Well-mannered firms don't do that sort of thing, you see. It drives the wages up.

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Re:Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines by Roboprog on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:38PM (#12933626)

But you see, competent engineers who work for below market salaries are an endangered species! As such, they deserve our full "protection".

Thus the word "poached" :-)

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