Occupational Outlook for Computer Programmers

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Maybe, maybe not...

Years ago I knew an IT manager for a large Japanese company that is so big here it's essentially A US company. He hated the Japanese programmers that they use-- told me about one project that came back in half the time allotted and when he went into it it immediately blew up. No error-checking, no keyboard feedback... When he yelled at the programmer for allowing him to hit the wrong key and crash the program, the programmer just said "That's bad user. Good user don't do that."

Another one was a small nonprofit I worked with that needed a lot of database programming and several Indian companies bid on the job-- each one had it for a while, and each one screwed it up horribly. It cost a bundle to bring the work back home here, but it cost a bundle to have it screwed up, too.

There is a lot of good work done overseas, and it's getting better, but you all too often get what you pay for.