Also, when the word “IT” does not exactly sound like top engineering talent.
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> We are staffed by professional writers who all have extensive experience in news and journalism from around the globe.
No names, or headshots, or bios, or contact info of any of their "professional writers".
We get excellent results overall from our teams in India, but we also pay quite a bit over the bottom of the market there...
This, you nailed it and honestly what else matters. 100% of "offshore labor" and "india labor" and whatever is about exploiting people for personal gain. It's short-sighted selfish greedy Americans mostly, and they honestly believe that brown people living in other countries exist to be their slave labor. These same people are the ones who are constantly trying to abuse the "intern" program.
If you hire someone in India for $20/hr to do a job you damn well know is worth $100/hr then you're a ....ing ....ole. Every time I see job postings looking to exploit third world labor markets, I hope those underpaid developers burn the employer's entire operation to the ground.
It's not enough to bear witness to evil. We should be taking action to stop it.
I think we shouldn't upvote these sites so they are not rewarded them with advertising exposures. I would imagine trending HN stories drive good traffic to the linked sites.
1. The scare quotes around "Engineers" seems inappropriate.
2. "In India" is pretty broad; did they go out and test every self-proclaimed engineer in India?
3. "Candidate is not able to write compilable code" sounds questionable; how were they assessed? Were they allowed to use an IDE? Were they allowed to fix compiler errors and were unable, or did they instantly fail if their code didn't compile on the first try?
4. I think the assumption that people who self-select to apply for Aspiring Minds represent a fair slice of Indian Engineers seems weak at best.
>Jews in US Congress Urge Israel to Accept UN “Deal” to Deport African Invaders to White Countries
I don't think this would qualify as a creditable new source for IT information.
>Over 36,000 engineering students from IT related branches of over 500 colleges
Well they're students. In my experience you build most of your chops "on the street." I would hope they wouldn't include freshmen or sophomores who haven't even really dug into the major curriculum (assuming their colleges work the same way as our accredited ones).
The stats show that most programs had syntax errors. I don't think it's fair to ask someone to write strictly correct Java/C#/C++ using pen and paper.
