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Originally Posted by EagleFan
The excuse is that we can hire X number more developers per US resource but the turnover rate is so great that we are not gaining anything from this as the rate of development and quality of the product has dropped severely.
Any of the developers that are good enough to keep end up being brought to the US to work with visas (at US salaries which kind of ruins the whole "we are saving money in salaries" idea)..
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I'm in the IT consulting industry and have seen the technical jobs go offshore (good thing PM's and SME's are still needed onsite). It has been my experience that offshore does ultimately produce the necessary 'blended rate' to make us competitive and one-way-or-another, the job gets done even factoring the issues of turnover, language etc.
My issue with offshoring is that I believe we should keep some key intellectual capital within the US. I don't have a clean description of intellectual capital but think development of Oracle DB/SaaS Apps vs development of latest version of Quicken/compilers/games. As time goes by and as other countries catch up the definition changes.