{"id":179,"date":"2003-07-22T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/software_developers_victims_of_globalisation.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:06:08","slug":"software_developers_victims_of_globalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/programming\/software_developers_victims_of_globalisation.html","title":{"rendered":"Software developers will be the next victims of globalisation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Ng: Eeek… India invades my space<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I just came face to face with a product (and a dev team) that I’ll most likely be competing with. I was also told that the entire team is located in Bombay India. […] The demo today wasn’t some shoddy piece of work either – it was good – better than any of the stuff I saw from the UK, the US or Australia. I cringe when I think of what will happen once China gets it shit together and start churning out programmers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While I know of several adequate programmers trained in China, all of them emigrated to the United States. Still, the deluge of programming jobs heading to China and India has already begun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This threat to my livelihood has occupied my thoughts for the past couple of years. (For the record, my father raised this concern while I was still in university. Like a naive child, I shrugged off the threat saying that our developers would always be superior. Was I dumb kid or what?) As a result, I have decided not to work for companies which rely on a software product (off-the-shelf or otherwise) as their main source of revenue. I feel that working for companies which provide custom software “solutions” and services will partly shield me from the coming exodus. Perhaps I am in denial, but I believe that one cannot adequately manage custom software development when your developers are half a world and twelve time zones away. Here’s hoping.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Steven Schuldt has some good advice<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Since the future of professional dev work is very obviously headed to Bangalore and Beijing and wherever else poor saps are willing to sling Java or C# for $10 a week, and worse still that horrible, broken technologies like .Net and J2EE are going to be crammed down everyone’s throat, I would strongly suggest pursuing other interests. Become a teacher. Work for a social cause. Write.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Ng: Eeek… India invades my space<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I just came face to face with a product (and a dev team) that I’ll most likely be competing with. I was also told that the entire team is located in Bombay India. […] The demo today wasn’t some shoddy piece of … Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}