The funny thing is that some of these companies outsourced to the Ukraine and India and the rates didn't change. I would have thought that we would at least see some of the cost savings.
Both companies that outsourced ended up being complete disasters (we are still cleaning up the technical debt 3+ years later), which happened before I was involved.
Since this is the case, it made no sense to hire any company that didn't hire all developers directly in the US or Canada (which is now a requirement).
I suppose I should thank these companies, because it's the reason I have a job today.
Tech seems to be the only industry that thinks that hiring writers from overseas to produce content is somehow going to result in anything viable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/business/worldbusiness/19...
https://archives.cjr.org/short_takes/outsourced_edit.php
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/07/reuters.pressa...
more recent: https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jul/27/jou...
My point being; there's an efficient way to utilize cheap labor.
The real problem is the incentive structure, and of course, difficulty of the job that is programming.
Why would the rates be lower if the market is one where demand for labor exceeds supply? It's not like lowering the rate is going to allow them to sell more hours, since they are still constrained by human capacity. If the quality of the work was not good, that's a different issue.
Both of them work well since they impose a structure and programming model that basically works for a lot of business software, so you can focus on the domain problems and move quickly over the standard tasks like an asset pipeline or account management.
Makes sense not seeing React, though. It is far more complicated and fragile to get SEO-friendly pages rendered with React (and there aren't many legacy systems that use it, either).
I encounter this sort of thing so often, and it’s really, really bad. Positively awful. Super disconcerting.
In most cases like this, it’s just that one slide is longer than the others. In this case, there are a couple like that, but also for the rest, image tags have been used without specifying their dimensions, so they take up no space as the carousel slide enters, and then once the image starts loading they reflow instantaneously as the dimenions are known.
Please, if you have a carousel, you must make sure that its height never changes as it progresses. (And please always put width and height on your images, too, so the intrinsic aspect ratio can be applied properly.)
Oh, and auto-progressing carousels as a whole are a blight, but a sometimes-just-barely-tolerable one. So long as they’ll just stop progressing once I interact with them! Please!
Does anyone like carousels? I encounter software developers railing against them, I encounter normal people railing against them (from recently, a non-techie had one request about a new site, that the carousel inserted by the developer of the prototype—because it was a part of the WordPress theme used—be removed), I honestly can’t think of having encountered a single person that likes carousels. They’re just all-round irritating.
If you can afford to hide content why even put it in the first place? Specially on the most prominent part of your website.
If you want to deliver a message focus on essential content that cannot be hidden.
The percentage that is overhead will vary, but only by so much. Otherwise, someone will come along and find a way to undercut your prices and take your business. It's reasonable to assume that if one hourly cost is double another, the developer's pay is higher.
(Not denying someone might find a way to really pull a scam in the short-term, and find a kid they can pay minimum wage to, but that's not a scalable or stable arrangement).
[1] https://devquarterly.com/report/q2_2020/web#developers_worki...
edit: after checking out the entire article now, it is quite insightful to be honest. Lots of interesting research and data. I think they should just make a simple html version like the craigslist website and it will be a super hit.
Nice for the agencies, not all that useful to this crowd for data collection. Alot of the numbers are just way, way off from industry standards so it makes me wonder where they got them.
I feel like these numbers don’t add up.
There are for sure not 15k devs there. I’ve been to Andorra and visited a few meetups. They had very few people in attendance.
Portugal with 37$, never seen such salaries here..
Can anyone give me any advice, books or podcasts, how to get better in business negotiation, to be more confident to ask a proper charge?
