Kamal R. Prasad
Why are we the recipients of foreign investment if we have such incompetent workers and managers? I don't care where the investors live. People don't invest unless they expect a return.
Why are US employers trying so hard to get h1b visas to bring in workers from your country, and pay them more to work here? They are the same workers with the same competence, right? Why not just let them work from an office in your country?
Thankfully, I opted out of a career in programming, for a number of reasons. I mainly use programming when it's easier to write a small piece of code than explaining what I want to a programmer. Often, my code will be sent to a programmer, to turn it into production code. My work is more along the lines of coming up with the new product ideas that keep programmers employed, regardless of where they live.
Nation of idiots 422I'm in the process of reading a number of books to help me get a better idea what is going on in the international money flow picture. Please understand that foreign direct investment is...
What I have observed is that the greater the distance (in terms of geography, culture, trust, etc.) between you and your workers, the more time you have to spend specifying in detail exactly what you want them to do, checking that they got it right, and dealing with quality problems. These costs are never anticipated when top management comes down with a directive to outsource everything.
But the programmers in my workplace have a lot more to offer. They understand our products and our customers. They can do things other than programming. You don't have to specify exactly what you want, because you can trust them to come up with something creative that exceeds your expectations.
Do you mean 80% of programmers, or 80% of workers in general? Either way, it's nonsense.
