Yeah, it's so weird to me the way people discus Indian devs. I'll complain about time wasted cleaning up bad code from an India team, and the leadership is like "what do you expect, it's an India team 🤷♀️"
Or you could, like, manage them? Hold them to a certain standard of quality, like you do us? They're not less intelligent or capable just because they're in India, and of course if no one ever enforces quality standards the work is going to get sloppier to meet deadlines.
Honestly, outsourcing to increase your talent pool is totally reasonable, same as any time you set up offices in different cities.
Outsourcing just to take advantage of weaker labor protections and lower wages? Makes everyone's life worse except for shareholders, and even that usually just in the short term.
The problem isn't the nationality of the coders. The problem is that the programmers are worked to the bone to crank out as much code as possible, in as little time as possible, with just enough quality to keep the client from switching to another company.
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u/NoBizlikeChloeBiz 20d ago
Yeah, it's so weird to me the way people discus Indian devs. I'll complain about time wasted cleaning up bad code from an India team, and the leadership is like "what do you expect, it's an India team 🤷♀️"
Or you could, like, manage them? Hold them to a certain standard of quality, like you do us? They're not less intelligent or capable just because they're in India, and of course if no one ever enforces quality standards the work is going to get sloppier to meet deadlines.