The remote-work revolution has led some U.S. technology companies, from startups to Coinbase and Shopify, to seek new hires in Latin America -- where they can find qualified people in roughly the same time zone who'll work for much lower pay.
techies finally going thru their own "deindustrialization"
Big reason for poor quality code from offshoring is brain drain. Historically, the best engineers in India got poached to work in the West for higher wages, so those offshoring companies were stuck with a less talented pool to begin with, then add in the fact that they are competing on cost (I.e. rushing jobs) and you get that result.
This is changing as people in countries like India, Russia, China, the Philippines, etc. are more likely to go home after a short stay making $$$ in the West, or they're just less likely to come to the US in the first place because quality of life in the Global South has gotten better and better in the past 10-15 years while it's stagnated in the US while the gap in wages gets smaller and smaller.
Eventually, US companies won't even be able to exploit global South labor via offshoring, and then they will be in big trouble because no one wants to move to Stanky Yankee land, and no one here knows how to do anything.
Big reason for poor quality code from offshoring is brain drain. Historically, the best engineers in India got poached to work in the West for higher wages, so those offshoring companies were stuck with a less talented pool to begin with, then add in the fact that they are competing on cost (I.e. rushing jobs) and you get that result.
This is changing as people in countries like India, Russia, China, the Philippines, etc. are more likely to go home after a short stay making $$$ in the West, or they're just less likely to come to the US in the first place because quality of life in the Global South has gotten better and better in the past 10-15 years while it's stagnated in the US while the gap in wages gets smaller and smaller.
Eventually, US companies won't even be able to exploit global South labor via offshoring, and then they will be in big trouble because no one wants to move to Stanky Yankee land, and no one here knows how to do anything.
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