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dwood_dev | 1 month ago

One of my consulting customers has been half India, half not for a decade. There is a real push over the last year to wind down the not India half and shift to mostly India.

India based folks cost 50-75% less. I realize that quality India hires would be closer to US rates, but management is ignoring that aspect.

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Tade0|1 month ago

Ah, the circle of outsourcing.

If they're lucky they'll find one solid worker who's going to watch everyone else's hands. I've had one criminally underpaid unofficial[0] tech lead like that. He was herding a team of 11, where like four people at most really cared about the outcome of this project.

[0] Because otherwise a raise would be in order. Can't have that.