[lelanthran]

I upvoted your comment because it's largely accurate.

However, I would caution against blanket stereotypes like this:

> Look. Sure, if you're an Indian outsourcer developer, this is great. You can bang out monotonous repetitive code like a meat robot and collect a pay check your subsistence farmer parents could only dream of. You can do this for years, and never have to think, or be creative, or risk your job security.

A lot of the outsourced indian devs do indeed match that description, BUT the majority of them that I know of don't want to "bang out monotonous repetitive code like a meat robot and collect a pay check ".

They want to create novel and creative things like everyone else. That they're stuck in the modern equivalent of the assembly line is really not their fault, and most devs, outsourced or not, are in that space anyway.

[geodel]

> BUT the majority of them that I know of don't want to "bang out monotonous repetitive code like a meat robot and collect a pay check ".

Well, majority of you know are not majority of actual IT workforce in India. As some one who worked for a decade or so with Indian IT vendor and worked with outsourced developer till today. Most of them have no interest beyond meeting client requirement which is just code word for a massaged resume contain exact keywords that clients put in job requirement.

> They want to create novel and creative things like everyone else. That they're stuck in the modern equivalent of the assembly line is really not their fault, ..

Well they could've take low paying job that's creative. But IT jobs offer high income while sitting in A/C office and following instructions of manager/client.

Nothing wrong with that I am doing same. It is not a fault it is explicit choice they have made.

[girvo]

Well said. And they take like a duck to water when given the chance to do that novel creative tool driven work (and paid well).

Though in my direct example I’m talking about Malaysian outsourcing devs!