Originally posted by jmo21
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would you trust indian IT outsourcers ?
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI have seen an outsourced project go 100 times over budget, seriously 100 times, it's hard to believe but true.
Admittedly it was the clients fault, they should have questioned the ability of a bunch of guys in India who had never worked in the financial arena writing a trading platform for £100,000 in a technology they had never used.This default font is sooooooooooooo boring and so are short usernamesComment
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Originally posted by sappatz View PostIf your company is the best place to work in, for a mere £500 p/d, you can advertise here.Comment
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Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View PostAnd they paid time and materials not fixed price? Lucrative!
I think they had an attitude when it went over budget that it was cheaper than what was quoted by onshore so they just got in the habit of kicking them another few hundred K. They got into that habit.
When it started to go past 5 mill it was "well they must be nearly finished by now". When it hit 8 million they knew it was time to put a stop to it.
Maybe Plan B should be to set up shop in India, hire 50 rickshaw drivers as java developers and rent them out to big European banks by the day, I mean that is what they are doing just now anyway.Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostInsane, no wonder IBs are totally screwed just now if that is the way they work.
I think they had an attitude when it went over budget that it was cheaper than what was quoted by onshore so they just got in the habit of kicking them another few hundred K. They got into that habit.
When it started to go past 5 mill it was "well they must be nearly finished by now". When it hit 8 million they knew it was time to put a stop to it.
Maybe Plan B should be to set up shop in India, hire 50 rickshaw drivers as java developers and rent them out to big European banks by the day, I mean that is what they are doing just now anyway.This default font is sooooooooooooo boring and so are short usernamesComment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostAnother thing I found with outsourcing financial work to India is that by regulation they are not allowed to see the real data in the database, so someone onshore always has an overhead masking the data and making sure they can only see what they are meant to see.
And when the bugs come in they are usually data related "oh, we have a problem with the greeks on this instrument that client X has a call on" but as they are not allowed to see this data it is always someone onshore that has to fix it in a system that is undoubtedly crap.Comment
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You are all picking upon the negatives of outsourcing to the injuns, what about the positives.
1/ The laughs I get from reading their attempts at documentation
2/ The laughs I get from their attempts at testing
3/ when they request the needful and doing the muchness
4/ errr...
4/ umm...
5/ thats it!Your parents ruin the first half of your life and your kids ruin the second halfComment
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Originally posted by Cheshire Cat View Postthat's precisely the problem we're having on the current project I work on.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by MrsGoof View PostYou are all picking upon the negatives of outsourcing to the injuns, what about the positives.
1/ The laughs I get from reading their attempts at documentation
2/ The laughs I get from their attempts at testing
3/ when they request the needful and doing the muchness
4/ errr...
4/ umm...
5/ thats it!And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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The Indians will get better at programming but the UK will start to lag behind. Where are the young clever British programmers? One day UK companies may onshore or outsource development to India not because of price, but a paucity of talent.Cats are evil.Comment
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