Comment by raw_anon_1111

Comment by raw_anon_1111 19 hours ago

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You mean your standard consulting company that works on a project basis? This isn’t anything new. I worked for a startup founded by two non technical brothers who brought in an outside consulting company to do all of the work and then they brought in a CTO to bring it in house and I was one of his first technical hires.

You’ll be competing with cheap outsourced developers where only the tech leads and project managers are paid American wages.

You are basically doing staff augmentation which is the fifth level of hell

hahahahhaah 11 hours ago

Sounds like he is talking about a startup per-se where say 10 devs get 10% ea?

  • raw_anon_1111 9 hours ago

    No matter how you frame it, you are still competing with the “Americans who are the leads and people from India doing the work for less than Americans” companies.

    • hahahahhaah 2 hours ago

      Google, Facebook, Instagram, Stripe, Whatsapp, Coinbase, PIntrest, Amazon, Dropbox did well did they have a couple of team leads in US and rest in India at the start?

      (To be clear: nothing against Indian talent. My point is you don't need to compete with global outsourcing unless the value proposition isn't high so you need cheaper devs)

      • raw_anon_1111 2 hours ago

        They aren’t hiring the cheapest developers who can barely get into one of the WITCH companies where they are competing for contracts by cheap American companies