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Ask HN: Are developers in India highly over-rated?
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#2They suck. I am one.
But here's why our kind get's jobs.
(Skill/Pay) of Indian >= (Skill/Pay) of most top hackers.
It's all about optimization! :P
Re: Ask HN: Are developers in India highly over-rated?
#3They suck. I am one. But here's why our kind get's jobs. (Skill/Pay) of Indian >= (Skill/Pay) of most top hackers. It's all about optimization! :P
isn't it this kind of attitude makes u suck?
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#4There are many across the world especially fallen for Indian freelancers for their "price" and "quality". However, their experience has been unforgettable. Do you know Indian developers/ freelancers who actually meet gold standards?
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#6I think there are good and bad developers in every nation of the world. If you are looking for Indian developers in a place where the price is a race to the bottom, well, that's what you are going to get regardless of the nationality.
I made an interview with Jack Ganssle[0], which is one of the most known embedded engineers in the world, and I made a question to him about devs skill around the globe:
I have spent my life traveling all over the world and am finding great developers in all sorts of places.
-- [0] http://www.embarcados.com.br/embarcados-interview-jack-ganss...
Re: Ask HN: Are developers in India highly over-rated?
#7They suck. I am one. But here's why our kind get's jobs. (Skill/Pay) of Indian >= (Skill/Pay) of most top hackers. It's all about optimization! :P
isn't it this kind of attitude makes u suck?
The answer above is mostly a joke. But most Indian developers aren't from illustrious backgrounds, so they are simple, hardworking and will make do with peanuts. But yeah they aren't always innovative.
But that's changing rapidly. Indian startups have finally begun pushing back many of the SV startups which have operations in India.
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#8Indian developers are not over-rated. Infact noone outsources India because they think they think that Indian coders are geniuses.
They know that Indian developers are mediocre but management believes that mediocre is "good enough" at half the price , and guess what , it might hurt your ego , but in many cases mediocre developers + long working hours can solve most problems that typical devs encounter. You just need a good dev overseeing the efforts if the project is complex.
Re: Ask HN: Are developers in India highly over-rated?
#9Indian developers are not over-rated. Infact noone outsources India because they think they think that Indian coders are geniuses. They know that Indian developers are mediocre but management believes that mediocre is "good enough" at half the price , and guess what , it might hurt your ego , but in many cases mediocre developers + long working hours can solve most problems that typical devs encounter. You just need…
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Re: Ask HN: Are developers in India highly over-rated?
#10I recently had a contract job where I worked on code written by indian dev's. My main reaction was that they were actually quite capable and knew more than a few tricks, but these particular dev's were also making a large number of amatuer mistakes. There was a lot of copy/pasting of large blocks of code, for example.
My impression was that if they knew more high level theory, and did things in a more organized way, that they could be even more lazy and make even more money.