Subj : Re: experience with indians?
To   : comp.programming
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 01:35 pm

Giuseppe Dini said:

> If so, what do you think about them?

Eight people, six months, broken program which "worked" more by luck than 
judgement. Impossible to maintain. Would have given the comp.lang.c++ guys 
the screaming heebie-jeebies.

It took me a single day to replace that program with a correctly written 
program that worked around 600 times faster and which incorporated a spec 
change which would have taken around a week to implement on the existing 
program.

> Suggestions?
> What to be aware about?

It isn't Indian programmers that you need to be careful of. It's 
programmers. Some Indian programmers are fabulous - but most are terrible. 
Sturgeon's Law again. Likewise, some British programmers are fabulous - but 
most are terrible. Americans, Polish, Chinese, whatever. Nationality is 
irrelevant. The things that matter are cluefulness and the ability to 
communicate clearly. Both are necessary.


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