A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American Manufacturing

Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by fjrieiekd on Thursday December 15, 2016 @08:24AM (#13184379)

And the quality of that code is usually crap, so you get what you paid for as the more talented of these offshore workers will go to the US or another country with high salaries. This quality may be "acceptable" in enterprise contexts, but in small business or selling direct to the customer it's still much better to hire local devs.

There is also a project management overhead cost to outsourcing that must not be ignored and is prohibitive for smaller companies.

If we want to get anecdotal, across many different companies the only place I've seen outsourcing work is in a huge enterprise and only with several expensive and highly trained local devs cleaning up the crap. Otherwise it's just not worth it. AI will take our jobs long before outsourcing does.

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Re:A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American ... by pjmlp on Thursday December 15, 2016 @09:20AM (#13184676)

For those doing Fortune 500 consulting, outsourcing and offshore is everywhere, there is no way to avoid it.

I used to be very critic of the quality, specially since I happen to do reviews of delivered code, but then I also have seen the quality of some internal developers at those customers.

All because selling software isn't their core business, so as long as whatever is running on their servers, desktops, tablets, phones, helps to sell their core products (not software), no one cares one single second about code quality and how it is written.

Just like 99% of people don't care how the goods at their local stores are produced.

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