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| Offshoring - need experiences |
by fsr |
2004-04-12 05:51:11 |
I am an experienced (15 years) software engineer working for a small software company in the Boston, MA (USA) area. We have an excellent engineering team (14 developers, 7 QA engineers), in part because we've always set extremely high standards (both technically and personally) for new hires. Our strength is not just technical - we work together better than any other group I've been a part of (my team of 4 and 2 [dev and QA] has been called "pathologically functional").
We were told on Friday that in order to be able to scale, the company is going to offshore some software development and QA (to India). The stated plan is to take a "blended" approach in which teams will cross offices - my team might consist of a lead and a few developers here and a few developers in India, or it might consist of a lead and a few developers there and a few developers here. Management claims that we will maintain the same hiring standards for the new office that we have here - all members of a team will have to approve a new hire on that team, etc. New hires for India will have to come here for a few months (or at least the first several will) so that we all get to know one another in order to maintain the high quality of the team.
My immediate reaction to this is that it will not work. Several co-workers' reactions are that we are training our replacements. Management, of course, insists that's not the case. "We'd be foolish to get rid of this team." "We have to do this to become enterprise-class and global." "Everyone is doing it, so we have to". That kind of thing.
After doing some reading and thinking this weekend, I'm convinced that management is either monumentally stupid or lying through their teeth. Either way, I'm pretty angry. If they're lying, I should start job hunting *now*. If they're monumentally stupid, I need to collect information that will hopefully show them the error of their ways. Which brings me to the reason for my posting.
Have you gone through this? Has it worked out well? What parts worked, and what parts failed? Did you end up training your replacement?
I'm trying to gather information to help me decide how to react to this. Please, keep it factual, not emotional, and keep it at the "how it affected me" level, not the global socio-politic-economic level. If I want diatribes and global stuff, I'll go to /. (which has a *lot* on the subject).
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Management is, of course, lying thru their teeth. | by Naruki | 2004-04-12 07:15:33 |
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