Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S
by github-cat on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:30PM
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Sorry, you misunderstood my point. My implication is that we should spent the money on the right people. For example, if we have budget of $10000, we can spend them hiring one/two good developers instead of hiring 4/5 below average developers.
Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S
by ktta on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:47PM
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It is possible one can hire better developers for a lower price in India than they would have to pay in the US.
Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S
by zeroxfe on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:00PM
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The (unconscious) bias here is via the assumption that one can't hire good developers in India.
Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S
by scholia on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:27PM
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Do really good American developers actually want to work for IBM? Serious question....
Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S
by pm90 on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:05PM
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Yes.
Re:IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S
by scholia on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:22PM
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Why? The company has reported declining revenues for 21 quarters -- more than five years -- is shedding tens of thousands of staff, doesn't generally pay high wages, has no market-leading products, and has a less sexy image than Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and practically every other significant IT company.
(I did say American developers, not Indian developers....)
The truth is, "opensource software and cloud" disrupted IBM's business model of selling proprietary software that runs on IBM hardware and selling services to maintain these.