That’ll cost them in the long run. Seen that, been there, multiple companies. I’ve also been on a lot of projects where the offshore execution was so poor that they brought those jobs back onshore. Even if you do a good job with the software at that point, your internal business partners will have lost their trust with the IT org, and by that time the business side will have aready accumulated a small army of cowboy coders to get stuff done. It won’t be good, great, or quality, but the business will be able to make decisions when they need to. Typically in those environments, the management and BAs are so poor at defining their requirements and needs, that it doesn’t matter how good of engineers you have at the end of that software delivery pipeline. It’s crap in, crap out.
Right. If a job can be WFH, then it will be done in Bangalore for 1/50 of the rate.
I've been saying this for awhile now. The people that are adamant about being able to work from home are basically begging to have their job outsourced, for the reason you just stated. If it can be done remotely, then there's a good chance it can be done very remotely. Careful what you wish for.
As much as I hate to admit it, thats why I put off purchasing my JT from mid-2020 to 2023. It took +$10k off the sticker price to lure me back.
I m a healtcare consultant with one foot dipped in management and work very closely with our execs. One of the biggest hospitals in CA and we've been outsourcing for over 5 years now with EXTREMELY good results. It's mainly with IBM offshore and their main pool of operations is in India (heard the next Silicon Valley is springing up there with massive IT buildings supporting global operations). I've worked extensively with those off-shore teams and while language barrier is somewhat there, their talent and work ethics are FAR BETTER than Western world ("I'm clocked out so don't bother me attitudes for most Americans".. "oh I can't work that shift cos my wife is having a baby shower"). In fact, IBM helped us reshape some of our backbone IT infrastructure that was unoptimized for years but no one wanted to touch it as people were simply "if aint broke, dont fix it" mentality. The irony is we were paying IT PMs over 200K salary working remote and they never voiced their opinion with a "hey...maybe we should try this for optimizations and take the business risk and see what happens". People were just comfortable working 4-6 hours a day wearing pajamas while reeping 200k income, 401k benefits, paid vacation, paid dental and healthcare coverage. When we outsourced, it's 3 yr IBM contract with full defined IT risks and liabilities from a legal perspective. If they eff up, they pay fines...their staffing is their problem. It's their job to protect our data which they take extremely seriously and introduced several auditing AI on top for system access (even for people like me supporting internally).
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