http://nomadic-developer.com/2009/10/03/back-from-china/ Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:33:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://nomadic-developer.com/2009/10/03/back-from-china/#comment-108 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:25:17 +0000 http://nomadic-developer.com/2009/10/03/back-from-china/#comment-108 Don’t apologize for not blogging. I agree that offshore resources are increasing in quality very quickly, and that we in the states must keep up or lose. Free trade is good and I don’t believe in protections for my own profession.

]]> http://nomadic-developer.com/2009/10/03/back-from-china/#comment-107 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:02:55 +0000 http://nomadic-developer.com/2009/10/03/back-from-china/#comment-107 You’re bound to get a skewed idea of the quality of offshore resources on a Thoughtworks project. In my experience you find skills in offshore workers in roughly the same proportion that you do with onshore workers. I used to assume every Chinese, Russian or Indian programmer was a genius, but have in the past couple of years found this to be far from the case.

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