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by sdfx
5810 days ago
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I really applaud your bold move and wish you the best of luck. But there is a lot of "the grass is always greener on the other side" mentality in this post, especially regarding personal freedoms and the bureaucracy/legal-system. I wonder how the example of your friend (getting sued for defamation) would have played out in China. How hard is it to hire good programmers in China? Does anyone have experience about what to expect for 600$ a month? |
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I am in favor of hiring outsourced Chinese programmers over Indian ones: it is possible to find ones with decent Japanese proficiency, which means that when Tokyo discovers the latest... curious engineering choice I don't have to spend a day doing the needful to communicate our displeasure about it.
We told our outsourced team to write four functions to be accessible via a REST service, using RestEasy. I anticipated this to be approximately a 20 ~ 30 line job. Two weeks later, we received a scratch-built HTTP client which supported precisely one verb and two handwritten serialization schemes, with half the code containing precisely one comment in English by way of Babelfish and the other half containing very literate English comments like you would expect from code developed at a multinational with a legal department better funded than the armed forces of of most NATO countries.
I pray your mileage varies.