[shindog]

Bit of an ignorant statement even if it is IBM. What’s wrong with developers “overseas” (a completely relative term but forgivable in the YC context) why call them monkeys (not an sjw so not even going to go down that words rabbit hole). Having worked with many a yank their quality is just as variable and I’ve seen better output standard maintained by some European teams even if scale is limited.

[dreamcompiler]

Ask an IBM employee with 20 years experience who's been replaced by someone in a country with cheap labor with 2 years experience.

No, scratch that. Ask an IBM customer if the quality of IBM's workforce is as good today as it was 10 years ago.

[flukus]

> What’s wrong with developers “overseas”

Often it's the culture and education system. Many cultures are very top down and everyone just says yes to whatever the boss wants and then tries to make it happen. The educations systems are often very focused on rote memorization. These translate to extremely poor software (among other things).

> why call them monkeys

It's a long standing term for people that write code but do little else. There has never been any racial undertone to the term.

[shindog]

Fair points in some places yeah!