Re:Singapore, where have all your talent gone?
by MugunthKumar on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @10:43AM
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True that.
You can't easily see technical co-founders starting companies. As such, most Singaporean startups are under the impression that building software can be outsourced to cheaper countries like India/Philippines.
They don't seem to understand the difference between, "IT" and "Software Engineering". The good engineers fight the system and eventually migrate to greener pastures like SV.
I know some iOS developers who were offered salaries in the range of $3500 to $4000 a month (matching a IT salary and not that of an Engineer's), almost three times as low as SV, despite being a expensive city to live in.
You can't easily see technical co-founders starting companies. As such, most Singaporean startups are under the impression that building software can be outsourced to cheaper countries like India/Philippines.
They don't seem to understand the difference between, "IT" and "Software Engineering". The good engineers fight the system and eventually migrate to greener pastures like SV.
I know some iOS developers who were offered salaries in the range of $3500 to $4000 a month (matching a IT salary and not that of an Engineer's), almost three times as low as SV, despite being a expensive city to live in.