mrstickball said:
richardhutnik said:
I had also seen this happen first-hand, but it didn't stop the corporation I used to work for from going down the path to believe their "brilliant" management plus cheap labor equals success. Code gets sent to the Indian developers, who then come back and use some code that was really questionable, and the error handling was very undeveloped. Quick turn around but utter garbage. But hey, the corporation felt they need it, so in an initiative they were advertising on national TV, they were simultaneously cutting funding to development in the area. Next up, throw out all the workers, and then wonder why you can't find anyone who knows their proprietary stuff, which really has no use outside of their own internal use and projects. So, you are let go? Well, good luck finding anything else. As far as brilliance goes, the corporation considered Unix System Admin on part with computer operators. Back in the day, before the outsourcing madness brought on by Y2K, the department in the Unix area would go out every week for lunch. It seemed nice for team building. Well, it was done because they were losing someone else in that area.
But hey, what I do I know, they have to be booming now. They are multinational after all.
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Its the business cycle. If their Indians are providing really shoddy code, it will eventually come back to bite them in the rear significantly. If it lasts long enough, they may have significant problems with deliverables and will eventually have to re-hire Americans, or may just go belly-up.
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One thing that happens in corporate environments is that managers and executives who do such cutting corners get praised for driving costs down, and then they move on to other things, and someone else has to pick up the pieces. I do know the company in question I have described is on a mission to gut its workforce of American workers at this point, so they wonder why their frontline managers have problems finding people. Well, disrespect your workforce and they don't stick around. Who ends up biting the bullet isn't management, it is shareholders long-term. Well, they the ones drive for NOW results, so maybe it is what goes around, comes around.
