Off-Shore Engineering

[George Toft]

Peter Buechler wrote:
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> On Wednesday 12 March 2003 05:25 pm, David Mandala wrote:
> > Since their quality can be outstanding that is going to be hard.
> > American Express is now more then 75% sourced in India where they hav=
e
> > PhD programmers getting and happy with $7 per hour.
> >
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> This is true. But their overhead that brings them up to $20/hour. Then =
if we
> specialize in things that are best done face to face, we could charge
> somewhat more than that. Perhaps we could write specifications and test=
s,
> then ship the implementation off to India.
> =

> Or maybe I should go to law school :-(
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One of my friends is from India.  He worked for IBM and made $1000/month
($12K/yr - $6/hr) as a junior- to mid-level coder.  IBM charged $30K/yr
for his services ($15/hr).

Maybe the answer is become the middleman in the offshoring effort. =

Hmmm... get $30K, pay $12K, keep $18K - Cool!!!

George
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