U.S. Vs. Overseas Developers: Do Overseas Programmers Get a Bad Rap? (opens in new tab)

To be honest I just had an interaction with an overseas developer today and had to explain that he needed to skip over a part of the documentation for an API it was blatently obvious he didn't read the documentation from the get go. I feel bad for these guys at the same time. I have a feeling when I visit India in a few weeks and meet with these developers I'm going to see a sparse office and these guys get paid shot. It's frustrating to deal with this, but at the same time the people are paid shot wages when their parent company is taking in the millions You have to have the utmost compassion.

According to their chart an average Pakistani dev is paid $7000 a month. They probably charge that, but the guy might be lucky to get this salary in a year.

I think there are multiple problems that might cause bad reputation:

1) In many scenarios less control over hiring

2) The usual remote trouble: Not everyone is made for it, especially devs that need a bit more guidance are difficult. Especially problematic in combination with 1.

3) what is mentioned in the article (culture, language, timezones)

Is that graph saying that in western Europe developers get paid an average of $10,000 a month, or $120,000 a year?

So average developer salary in western Europe is ~€105,000 and in the UK ~£90,000?

Does anyone here believe that? They would be the towards the higher ends of salaries for devs in those countries.

Interesting stats. I wish they said a little more about the most effective way to quickly filter out programmers in each domain.