article: programming jobs in the US at risk

[0roo0roo]

actually, graduates of itt, indias equivalent of MIT, i remember reading that about 2/3rds leave to work in the US. talk about brain drain.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Descartes
I thought I'd add more to this discussion...

Many of the types of programmers they are outsourcing are the corporate-monkey types who do nothing but hack out code all day in a cubicle. Programmers like these are easily replaced. Programmers need to learn how to market themselves; how to provide a *business* value as opposed to an entirely technical one. If you are working directly with clients, working with their business, etc., then you are way ahead of the game and have little to worry about with respect to outsourced programming.

yup ... and learn something beyond coding. Coding is generally a tool to solve other problems. Get some domain expertise and write good code and you'll have alot less to fear wrt outsourcing.

 

[bleeb]

Its not that programmers here don't know how to program, its that good programmers cost too much money here. Outsourcing in India is the trend.