Comment by dheera

Comment by dheera 4 days ago

> I won't talk about other fields, but American devs (regardless of race) tend to be much more passionate about computer science and (perhaps as a result) tend to be much better at their job than those from the big-name outsourcing countries.

Then why are half the websites I use broken? Why is my hospital's billing estimate system broken? Why did my FSA provider send a request of documentation to the wrong e-mail address? Why is my bank's website always broken? Why did Equifax leak data? Why did Doordash mis-charge me?

> Indian recruiting firms

There's your problem. Most top talent doesn't find jobs via recruiting firms.

irishcoffee 4 days ago

> Then why are half the websites I use broken? Why is my hospital's billing estimate system broken? Why did my FSA provider send a request of documentation to the wrong e-mail address? Why is my bank's website always broken? Why did Equifax leak data? Why did Doordash mis-charge me?

Well… you may be answering your own question if you think about it really, really hard.

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hajile 3 days ago

I can't speak to all of those, but Doordash has extensively outsourced its software teams to India. I also know that lots of hospital software companies also outsource to India. Your FSA provider probably had someone in a call center transcribe an email incorrectly and we all know most call centers aren't in the US either...

> There's your problem. Most top talent doesn't find jobs via recruiting firms.

You'd need to prove this statement. F500 companies have more money than most companies and pretty much exclusively hire through recruiters. If you were top talent and wanted to work for a top overseas company, it seems like working with a recruitment agency would be a no-brainer.

In any case, I had zero say in who to use. I was handed some contacts and told to make it work.

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TheOtherHobbes 4 days ago

Why is everything broken? American MBA culture. PE wealth extraction. A bought and paid for political class.

Zero situational awareness, DGAF as long as number go up.

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