Comments on: Essential reading: How to Get Good Offshore Programmers http://www.karlkatzke.com/essential-reading-how-to-get-good-offshore-programmers/ Geek of the Week Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:14:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Raza Imam http://www.karlkatzke.com/essential-reading-how-to-get-good-offshore-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Raza Imam Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:31:54 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/essential-reading-how-to-get-good-offshore-programmers/#comment-180 You're on point... outsourcing is about high-value, not low cost. You need to find a company with good business sense. Finding good developers is easy, but finding people that are reliable, trustworthy, and committed is an entirely different story. We're an offshore development firm and we keep talking to companies that are disgruntled with their offshore team. We may not be the biggest or cheapest, but we're committed as can be and communicate CONSTANTLY. Yeah, we experience problems here and there, but at the moment of truth, the key is to be honest with the client and roll with the punches. We bypass the NDA problem because we're HQ'd in Chicago. So if something happens, clients can still hold our feet to the fire. FYI - I learned that an NDA signed with a foreign company is useless unless it actually enters the US postal system. Both me and my partner in Pakistan and to sign and mail an NDA to one of our clients (vs just faxing it) Pretty interesting. Raza Imam http://BoycottSoftwareSweatshops.com You’re on point… outsourcing is about high-value, not low cost. You need to find a company with good business sense. Finding good developers is easy, but finding people that are reliable, trustworthy, and committed is an entirely different story.

We’re an offshore development firm and we keep talking to companies that are disgruntled with their offshore team. We may not be the biggest or cheapest, but we’re committed as can be and communicate CONSTANTLY. Yeah, we experience problems here and there, but at the moment of truth, the key is to be honest with the client and roll with the punches.

We bypass the NDA problem because we’re HQ’d in Chicago. So if something happens, clients can still hold our feet to the fire.

FYI – I learned that an NDA signed with a foreign company is useless unless it actually enters the US postal system. Both me and my partner in Pakistan and to sign and mail an NDA to one of our clients (vs just faxing it) Pretty interesting.

Raza Imam
http://BoycottSoftwareSweatshops.com

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