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This. I've outsourced to India, Uruguay, Poland and I think Ukraine. Every single line of code from outsourcing has been thrown away. That was from finding a dev shop and them leasing one of their "devs" for x per hour (x was never under $20). When I learnt my lesson, I thought about it and removed the indirection. Since 2011 I've only hired directly, but still remotely. I explain exactly what quality level is expect…
I recently did a code review for some work from a team in Ukraine. I was not expecting much - instead, I was blown away. The code was phenomenally well put together, good tests in place, comments were clear enough - this was tens of thousands of lines of code I'd never seen before and I was able to find my way around - and understand it - within just a few minutes. Not once did I cringe or find anything desperately i…
Re: 24th Birthday: What it’s like to be 24 for a Software Engineer in India
#61My experiences were similar - at the last job we had a team in Ukraine (they were in Zaporizhia and Odessa). It took a long time to find them (we wanted excellent English as well as coding skills) but once we did we signed them to a 2 year contract. They really were an extension of our company.