[register]

It's not the industry: it's the country. I worked with German suppliers and I can tell you that German culture is generally permeated by a strong "superiority complex". If you don't come from a Northern European country or UK or USA people will generally be very suspicious about your honesty, integrity and skills. You will have to prove yourself on the field to gain trust. The strange thing is that I found the same attitude also in foreign people that stayed in Germany for a long time and considered themselves German as well. Of course this is a rough generalization and I found also a lot of nice people without any prejudices however expect to be treated with distrust when you are in Germany.

[Mithaldu]

In short: This happens because __in general__ engineering, __on average__, german work is superior. Mind, this is not due to something inherent to germans, but due to our social environment. In germany you tend to get paid more* for your work and have more time to complete your work because it's expected that you deliver quality. Meanwhile outsourced work is paid little and expected quickly, so foreign workers (especially east-european) have little incentive or reason to improve their work quality and even if they care, have little opportunity to do so. (No time to actually read "Perl Best Practices" when some german manager wants the work done 'now'.) Added to that there's also the fact that higher education in germany is for all intents and purposes free, adding just another early education edge for people here.

* higher wages all around, illegal to work without health insurance, law-mandated minimum paid vacation (24 days), all (real) sick days fully paid

[register]

This is the perfect example of the "it's not germans is that Germany is better" meme that permeates the German culture directly from the words of a German guy :). The hidden implication is that Germans engineers are better because they grow up in a better environment. I'll leave it to you to judge. Let me just add a small note: it's not uncommon to see IT companies in Germany employing a lot of people from Eastern European countries.

[Mithaldu]

As i said, on average. For every company that tries to copy the american outsourcing model and ends up with a crap heap because they're too cheap to pay for good code, i've seen two that actually care.

Also, i don't get where you get the "hidden implication" bit from. I'm outright stating that it is a fact that while german engineers may not be better people, or developers, or engineers, they have a lot of advantages pushing them beyond peers from less fortunate countries.

[menelaus35]

Yet, they have Turkish founders and CEO.