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by therealdrag0 2695 days ago
> and it always falls flat on its face. How so? What about outsourcing in general? Where I work wanted to save money, and now we have 4x as many engineers in India. Most of them suck, and we have to shepherd and correct their mistakes, but business is viewing it as a success. They are creating features at a higher rate than we were before. Every other large company also has teams in 2nd world countries because they're cheap. At some point this labor will be both cheaper and qualitatively comparable to US talent.