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Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by plaban123 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:37AM (#14154690)
The bad "Indian code" is what the client is paying for. If you pay 1/10th of American salary to recruit developers in India who are at the bottom of the stack in terms of competency, what are you expecting?. Everything is magnified in India because of the population. We have bad coders to CEOs of American corporations.

But this works as well. Thats why TCS, Infosys, etc are billionaire dollar enterprises.

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Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by golergka on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:56AM (#14155844)
Outsourcing companies in Ukraine or Russia don't have the same problem.
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Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by rishabhsagar on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:14AM (#14156312)
That is not because Ukraine and Russia don't have bad (hence cheap) IT staff.

It has more to do with IT resources from India generally tend to be the sweet spot of cheap enough and good enough (for a cheapskate, penny foolish myopic offshoring companies) resources.

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Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by golergka on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:12PM (#14161383)
Hm. I can get a competent developer from Russia for $1000 a month plus taxes; how much does that super-cheap Indian developer cost?
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Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by rishabhsagar on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:23AM (#14163879)
A competent IT developer / analyst can be hired for about 450 - 600 GBP per day. Run of the mill, hit or miss offshore resources provided by TCS / Infosys etc are usually billed at 150 - 300 GBP per day.
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Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by trowawee on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:10PM (#14161718)
I would disagree. I've worked on legacy products created by Eastern European engineers that were absolute nightmares.
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