On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Robert Nesius <nesius at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Andrew Dahl <droidjd at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Interesting note regarding companies hiring overseas. My brother-in-law's >> employer has started to shift from hiring people in India to hiring people >> here, citing the ROI as the reason. >> > > A lot of companies have found the increased overhead/supervision to make > sure the low-rent overseas talent produces offsets the savings by going > overseas. > > -Rob > > That and due to recent government regulation in India, it's becoming a much more expensive route. That was their primary reason for doing it (citing the ROI was going down due to these increased costs imposed by their government -- kind of left that part out... slipped my mind at the time ;)). But, some companies do have good results. My last employer had a large team in India, which we'd offload work onto and check in on occasion. Given the lack of supervision, I was quite impressed. -- Another branch of the company had over 14,000 workers in India that were used for R&D. They were able to do some very awesome stuff in short periods. So, now that I'm done rambling... I think the larger companies (60,000+ employees) have less of a problem with overhead/supervision because they're able to setup a large presence there and it becomes more cost effective (plus, they've the resources to deal with the overhead and I doubt they'd be finding 14,000 people here too easily, thus it starts to become a required move). On the converse. smaller companies have more trouble because they do run into huge barriers with supervision and management with much smaller numbers. My opinion, of course. -- I've only had to deal with large teams overseas at employers with 100,000+ employees. My current employer employs a small handful of people around the world, but it's a whole lot easier to manage stateside when it's only one or two per country. And I've had the pleasure of dealing with /very/ small companies who built software strictly through companies that outsource the work to offshore developers... overall, that's been the only bad experience so far. -Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130210/fde509d9/attachment.html>