"Offshore developed code is not usually the same quality."
American exceptionalism and absolutely wrong.
American exceptionalism and absolutely wrong.
I don't think this has to be American to be true.
I have no idea what % of offshore code work that represents compared to just a regular consulting firm that happens to be located overseas, or a branch office of a company located in another country.
Should I assume that American code is usually low quality?
Oh, and also, both the previous paragraph and your comments in the thread are (edited:)nationalist[1]. Not that it's not fun to use stereotypes and a few anecdotes to form an opinion, so don't mind me, just noting.
[1] Not sure if it's the correct word, I mean discrimination by ethnicity and nationality.
Nor do I think my nation is the greatest, and all the others suck. So I don't think it counts as nationalism.
Anyway, you do attribute certain characteristics to members of whole nations without any kind of proof (beyond what "everybody [in the field] knows"). I believe you shouldn't, and that it doesn't matter if the characteristics are positive or negative.
In reality, there are both good and bad programmers everywhere. That you ended up working with the bad - or maybe ill-incentivized due to some circumstances - programmers from here or there does not mean that there are no good programmers there or businesses that care for quality. It just means you didn't meet them.
Perhaps you should not be accusing others then if you aren't even certain what you're accusing them of.
> Anyway, you do attribute certain characteristics to members of whole nations without any kind of proof
Homogeneous groups of people often share similar attributes, I don't see what is incorrect or wrong about that.
You are correct though, I do not have proof, but it is something that I hear from and discuss with colleagues, as well as have observed myself.
I said I'm sorry, and I edited the comment. This is, however, a detail - that you are unjustly discriminating, only on a basis other than race, I stand by.
> Homogeneous groups of people
Assuming homogeneity of any group of people is almost certainly wrong.
Why don't you substitute "black" or "Hispanic" or "Jewish" for "offshore" in your arguments and see what happens? Would you be able to leisurely write that, in your opinion, "black programmers are sloppy and only churn code as quickly as possible"?
You can also hire the better part of offshore developers if you'll pay just a bit closer to US rates. I saw the situation "$15/h developer failed everything, help us $35/h developer!" quite a lot in Russian-speaking freelance communities.
Yes. It usually is.
That is implied, from the comment you replied to. You may need to rephrase.