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Posted - 2013.06.16 11:22:00 -
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Django Quik wrote:Atikali Havendoorr wrote:Chinese developers
Okay, this one can be a bit fishy and questionable, some might call it racist. I don't know for how long their Chinese team have been around. My experience is that generally Chinese programmers are good at crunching out the bulk, but they lack the feeling and ability to make high quality products all the way out like we are used to. Whilst most of what you've said in the rest of your post is tenuous and debateable, I only want to focus on this part, which makes everything else you've said highly dubious. Do you know that the china office is full only of chinese devs? Well, it's not. CCP have devs from all over the world in all their offices. Also, some might call your comment racist - that's because it is.
Wrong
You ever heard the term "African time"? Have you done business anywhere but your one politically correct closet? Different cultures all over the world affect how business is done and how tasks are accomplished, in what manner and how effective overall that culture is at certain projects. Its called Organizational culture, and its a very large point of study with regards to effective business for multinational organizations. Building a plane in Russia is a lot different from building that same plane in Canada, the USA, North Africa, south Africa, Germany or Thailand. (not that im looking down on Russia)
All those countries have very different ways of approaching a task and organizing and implementing it. If you try to treat all those places as cookie cutters your gonna lose billions as many companies have when trying to from foreign business. And that's just production of product, not marketing or the product itself. You could talk away all education differances from those places and you would still have very different organizational cultures.
There is a reason the Germans are known throughout the world for high quality engineering. "German efficiency" and its associated technical skills have built a very results oriented business culture, with few cultural barriers that a lot of other countries weigh their business planing down with. Japan being a perfect example of extraneous amounts of "business tradition" can make deals take far longer and more complicated then the original task would entail (Depends on the industry).
This is worse in some sectors then others, You will find the more suited your task is to McDonalds style business efforts are the more easier it is to transfer to other countries, thats why fast food chain expansion ( has been easy for MacDonalds where more intangible building the proper culture that business requires to function is far harder in other sectors like think tanks and engineering.
Its a very important factor that cannot be overlooked, many companies have done this as they have little international business experience and it has cost them tons of cash as they basically bleed out their income.
Even if the office was full of Icelandic over time the distance and culture of the surrounding area would leak into the company just like how Americans did not identify themselves as British after being isolated from colonial power. People would take wives and husbands from the area, raise kids and eventually you would see "changes" not necessarily for worse or better but certainly changes in how that department would function as apposed to the people back in iceland. That can create developmental rifts and cause problems if someone is not watching out for them.
There are a lot more points and factors that I could go on about that create and or contribute to this but that's way above my internet pay grade.
Its also one of the reasons military's like to cycle guys through deployments even on peacetime operations, they want them to identify with their home country not the one they are deployed in. |