Look at All These Tech T-Comps 😱

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@Terri

The cultural issues in themselves may not be worth the difference.

I used to work for a small company who, before hiring me, had hired a group in India. Sure he was probably paying $15-20/hr or something really low, but
a) They were 12 hours off, so it was a PIA to call them.
b) They would say “yes we can do that” no matter what leaving him to have to tell customers that their software was late the day it was due.
c) The English translations were obviously wrong (mostly Briticized, but had to be corrected).

While these observations are true, it’s also worth noting that this is a sweeping generalization that overlooks the fact that India, like any other country, has a broad range of capabilities in workforce that typically fall in a bell curve. Engineers working in Google, Facebook and Amazon offices in India don’t exhibit any of the characteristics portrayed above. But then they also command a far better salary.

In the outsourced model, most companies work under cost constraints and look for cheapest deal and then have to contend with some of these challenges.