I am seeing a trend that more and more companies in US are partnering with Indian outsourcing firms and sending technical work to offshore. I like technical side but it seems like companies are more interested in soft skills instead of hard skills and there is no future staying on technical roles as you get older. What are your thoughts and career advice?
Hold up. L'Oreal is on blind? I think I saw someone from Sephora a while back.
I know a dude who gets remote jobs in the US and offshores the work. Heās making hella $$$
Vote democrat if you want more offshoring.
I hated democrats for this problem. So I was all for Trump because I saw some hope in him to control this H1B & outsourcing plague but he turned to out to be a baboon.
Neither side is even talking about doing anything against offshoring tech work
Sometimes I think this process is cyclical.
Yup as labor costs increase elsewhere the jobs will come back, but maybe not before mass automation occurs. Interesting race to observe.
I don't see this at all. Companies are learning that offshoring isn't a winning strategy whether the goal is quality or speed (quick learning / iteration on the product). It could work for simpler projects though if the goal is minimized budget.
The startup I used to work for went down because of outsourcing despite repeated warnings. They fucked up the code and infra to the point where adding new features would take exponentially longer and we simply couldnāt keep pace with demand. The founders were greedy
It's all fun and games to outsource the technical skills until they steal all your code and copy your company.
How often has that happened?
Or sell customer data to chicomm or russia