<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Robert Nesius <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nesius@gmail.com" target="_blank">nesius@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Andrew Dahl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:droidjd@gmail.com" target="_blank">droidjd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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.</p>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div>
<div>-Rob</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote>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 ;)).<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br><div>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
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