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Story: Offshoring behind UK tech-labour divide
Not just my experience
I have worked in the industry for many years and in that time have become friends with people across a broad spectrum of the industry. The consensus amongst most of the people I know is that off shoring does adversely effect quality to some degree and in too many cases to a great extent. Off shore companies are simply jobbing shops when all is told and want to get software out of the door as quickly as possible to maximize revenue. In house development comes from a different perspective and that is where quality issues arise. I have trained off shore workers who have told me that my techniques and methodologies, to produce clean maintainable code, just would not be tolerated back home because of the treadmill culture that exists there. This is a scenario that has been relayed to me time and time again. As projects either fail or are delivered barely working by off shore companies. It's not the skills of the off shore workers that are at fault either as many of them are better than me or at least my equal but due to the situation they find themselves in being thousands of miles from the client and relying on everything to be discussed over phone at odd hours of the day. This is only compounded by the attitudes of the companies they work for.
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