Re:“A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group
by girvo on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:39PM
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Our remote team (in SEA) adds a tonne of value to our local Australian based team; but they mostly do maintenance work and are heavily integrated into our local team (they’re quite literally just treated as remote devs, rather than their own company). It’s worked really well for about 6-7 years now
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Re:“A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group
by _bxg1 on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @09:17PM
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I didn't say Asian labor, I said cheap/hasty labor. As the article makes clear, you can get that in the States too.
Re:“A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group
by peteretep on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @09:41PM
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You didn't say "cheap/hasty" you said "cheap", and I can assure you teams in Australia outsourcing dev work to SEA are doing it because it's cheap(er).
Re:“A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group
by astrange on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:42PM
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A lot more people live in SEA than Australia, so it's probably both easier and cheaper to find people. SEA also speaks English and I'm sure there's good programmers around there somewhere.
Another good reason to have remote support in Asia is it's a different time zone. Not for Australia obviously, but that's a harmless thing for a US company to do.