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24th Birthday: What it’s like to be 24 for a Software Engineer in India

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Re: 24th Birthday: What it’s like to be 24 for a Software Engineer in India

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Post by kika »

_random_ wrote: post #2

"IMHO work quality is severely underrated in India, everything just needs to be done, the end quality does not matter, it should just work, that's enough" - this fact about Indian software development is well-known throughout the world.

Honestly I think that there's nothing national in this. It's just because the majority of the development work in India is being done in outsourcing. When you outsource you rarely pay for 'quality code', you pay for the code that works, delivered on time and preferably below the budget. Okay, you get what you're paying for.

Having said that I realize that this is a vicious cycle - young developers can write good code, but the market requires them to quickly crank up a lot of code which is just good enough to satisfy customer's quality requirements. In few years this developer is not able to write good code because he basically forgot how to do that.

Want to improve the quality of code from India (any other country for that matter)? Stop outsourcing there :-)

Re: 24th Birthday: What it’s like to be 24 for a Software Engineer in India

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Post by babby »

jalan wrote: post #5
[deleted] wrote: post #3

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Thanks for the constructive advice, will work on the points you mentioned. Glad you enjoyed the post though!

It's great that you can take criticism. I've interacted with quite a few Asians online who literally believe their English is perfected, yet their written words read like they are proper idiots. Your English is pretty great though, in comparison. I think you will find you will gain a good deal more respect among fluent English speakers and programmers alike when you master the language.

Re: 24th Birthday: What it’s like to be 24 for a Software Engineer in India

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Post by kivikakk »

babby wrote: post #6
jalan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the constructive advice, will work on the points you mentioned. Glad you enjoyed the post though!

It's great that you can take criticism. I've interacted with quite a few Asians online who literally believe their English is perfected, yet their written words read like they are proper idiots. Your English is pretty great though, in comparison. I think you will find you will gain a good deal more respect among fluent English speakers and programmers alike when you master the language.

Fuck that noise. It's representative of a shit state of affairs when 'mastery' of one particular language is necessary to gain respect among fluent speakers. No respect for those who haven't 'mastered' the thing we have mastery of? Fuck, it sounds like a recipe for supremacy or something.

Re: 24th Birthday: What it’s like to be 24 for a Software Engineer in India

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Post by jalan »

s-topper wrote: post #9

>>>> 98% of Indian Population have not even heard the word "Github" in their entire life, yet everyone acts like they know this stuff What kind of logic is it? Are 98% of Indian population software engineers? Why do they need to know about GitHub?

You haven't mentioned the complete sentence => "98% of Indian Population have not even heard the word "Github" in their entire life, yet everyone acts like they know this stuff".

The problem is "They try to act" like they know about software industry, meanwhile when you try to explain them that you are working on some open source project, they refuse to respect your opinion.

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