> Goodbye US employees, welcome Asian and Eastern European employees. It's definitely not about costs though (wink)
To any companies planning to save big bucks through outsourcing: forget it. It looks good on paper, but in practice you will regret picking your engineering talent based on how cheap you can get them.
It's taken years for my company's management to truly understand that if your motivation for hiring overseas is that you can get engineers for 1/6 the price, you're going to get correspondingly poor results. Good engineers don't stay long at that price point, no matter where they live.
To any companies planning to save big bucks through outsourcing: forget it. It looks good on paper, but in practice you will regret picking your engineering talent based on how cheap you can get them.
It's taken years for my company's management to truly understand that if your motivation for hiring overseas is that you can get engineers for 1/6 the price, you're going to get correspondingly poor results. Good engineers don't stay long at that price point, no matter where they live.