Craigslist and looking for a web/php/postgresql guy

[lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org (Don Levey)]

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Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 12:35:46PM -0400, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> I posted an ad on Craigslist and explicitly stated that U.S. citizenship
>> was required and then applicants MUST be on the Boston side of the rt-128
>> loop.
>>
>> I'm getting people from Pakistan, India, Russia, etc. answering the ad.
>>
>> The rates are insanely low. $12/hour!!!
>>
>> IMHO outsourcing is killing the software industry in the U.S. but how can
>> companies resist paying software developers McDonald's wages?
> 
> Week 1: you do 80% of the work by writing the spec for the offshore
> developers to follow.
> ...<snip>...
> 
> If you were a large corporation, multiply the above timeline by a factor
> of 2 or more, and the amount of money you spent by 10.  It's possibly that
> changing corporate priorities and reshuffles could delay the discovery
> that OSDC Inc doesn't do very much for years.
> 
> 
> Summary: if it's critical to your business, you cannot outsource
> it.
> 
As a support/consulting engineer at my company, I deal with the
aftermath of offshoring decisions on a daily basis.  I cannot emphasize
just how correct Dan's assessment is.  From what I see, the initial cost
of development is small, but the product comes in well after projected
time, it is inferior, and must be redone.  That development is done 9
timezones away adds yet another layer of confusion and delay to the
timetable.

It's a short-term gain for a long-term loss.

 -Don

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