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Oh Geez!!! :-D You want me to write a book eh? Well, I'll be brief at first and you can dig with more questions where you might be interested. I used to work for Micron Technology, Inc. I was on the team that worked directly with WIPRO and WIPRO was writing are new manufacturing project management system. It was huge with terrabyte databases in memory (using perl), C++ middleware and VB 6.0 front-ends. My job was to qualify all the code coming in from WIPRO and sign-off that it was ready to go into our manufacturing system for production. Keep in mind 1 hour of downtime in 1 facility = $1 million in loss and that's on the conservative side. So to begin with their production system V 1.0 had no error handlers in any of the code anywhere. None. I reported this and they sent the VB 6.0 code back in less than 1 hour and they had put this in every sub/method/function On Error GoTo ErrorHandler ErrorHandler: ResumeNext That was how things started. Well not really. My boss and I had been battling it out with them for months because of differences in what Americans (us) felt was quality software that was well written and what WIPRO (them) felt was well-written quality software. We wanted a minimum of 2 levels of redundancy in non MFG critical code and 3 or 4 levels in MFG critical code. WIPRO was reluctant to provide even 1 level even though in the analysis and requirements document that we received from them multiple levels of redundancy were spelled out in clear terms. It just went back and forth like that. We had to fight tooth and nail for every feature. Then when they released the code to us I found issues in every single release from the PERL, C++ and VB none of it was done right every. So we'd ship it back and say it was wrong. Fight with them on why. I cannot count the times I had to stay up late in the night and haggle it out with OFFSHORE over why something wasn't going to work. In some cases they would ship code that would not work at all with their other code. We'd explain this and they'd say well we cannot release our beta code that we've upgraded to it's not ready. So they would claim they met the release on time but really they didn't the other half of the system wasn't done but because the frontend was they they felt they met their deadline. AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!! It was so tedious to work with them. I spent more time fixing their code then I spent writing my own. Here's the final kicker. I wrote Microns memory build and hot-lot tracking system it was a wo

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code-frog wrote:

On Error GoTo ErrorHandler ErrorHandler: ResumeNext

hahahahahaha..., thats bad really bad, i have seen VB programmers do that a lot On Error resume next i think they ripped you guys off, there is no explaination for this kind of behaviour, think what would have happened if you were not checking the code from them :omg: and what ever they sent was installed (millions of dollors in losses) well if i see a guy from wipro i will surely convey your regards :-D

Master.. Master.. where's the dreams that i've been after...

code frog 0

That was just it though. They didn't think there was a problem at all. They thought I was the problem. This was during a time when buffer attacks were huge. They were not checking string lengths in anything they had no security code at all. If someone wanted to use the system maliciously boy could they ever. Prior to working with WIPRO I thought nothing could be worse than the 3 years I spent working in SAP R/3 and their nightmare ABAP programming language. WIPRO convinced me otherwise and in short order...:sigh:

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Vivek Rajan wrote:

code-frog, I must say I really didnt see this coming from you.

Yeah, I was kinda taken aback too! Though, at least he was honest about it. Regards, Nish

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That must have been painful. I am not very surprised though. Big companies like Wipro hire 1000s every month without doing a proper quality check on the candidate. And you also had to pick the VB6 team - yeah, that sure made things better for you, didn't it? :-) Wipro is such a large company that I am sure they must have some good teams too. But their best people are probably reserved for on-client-site work in the US and the UK. When you have work completely done in India, you can be pretty sure that it's the 2nd layer of coders who are working on it. Regards, Nish

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code frog 0

This project was enormous. We had a dozen of their top designers on site at all times and these guys would ship the requirements off-shore to India. I don't recall the exact number of developers but I was lead to believe it was a pile. It wasn't just VB either. The project in it's entire scope was SAP R/3, VB 6.0, VC++ 6.0, ATL, MTS, PERL, Python, HTML and it worked against Sybase, SQL Server, Oracle and SAP. The crux in all of it was that WIPRO was way out of their depth on it. I don't know the end outcome of the system but I know at one point in time my former company was considering killing the project and bringing it to our Plant Operations division which believed it could author the same system (much better, in less time and for less money). The only people who didn't believe them were WIPRO and our top-level managers every developer involved knew that Plant Operations was the correct way to go and that WIPRO should have been flushed but anyhow... It stunk!!!

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code-frog wrote:

It stunk!!!

From your descriptions, I can imagine that it must have. But I still disagree with your attitude that all Indian developers would be bad at development and would not be able to communicate fluently in English. Of course it's probably my patriotism at work there too. Also, since your mind-set is fixed thus, against Indians, it may be a bad idea for you to ever again interact professionally with Indian developers. With this sort of prejudice, things would surely go wrong very fast. So it's probably a good thing that you clearly specify that you will not accept work from people of Indian origin (even if they are Green Card holders or citizens in the States). Good luck in future with American developers though. Regards, Nish

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code frog 0

You can disagree with that and I do to. The only reason I said no Indian developers at first is not because I think they are bad I don't. That would be very foolish. Selfishly, I didn't want to because it's *so* hard to understand many of them who have such thick English accents. That's the only reason. Purely selfish. The reason I retracted the statement is because I immediately realized I'd never likely have to talk with them. I'm not really talking to you but we are communicating just fine. I concluded that probably 100% of the conversation would be in text through email for message boards. I had a :doh: moment and fixed it. Quality was not the issue at all though it was in my WIPRO example and trying to communicate things verbally to the WIPRO leads was very hard. Probably for them and us. The accents were very thick. Anyway, not a quality thing a selfish thing.:rose:

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code-frog wrote:

I didn't want to because it's *so* hard to understand many of them who have such thick English accents.

:-) I understand. My accent is probably pretty bad too, and I know there are lots of Indians with even stronger (thicker) accents. So I can imagine it must be pretty tough for you. Regards, Nish

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srt123

Wow! ... tell me are you hiring a Journalist or a computer programmer? ... I mean how much do you talk? ... infact are you just full of it? Anyways ... lets say 1. A negro (American born and bred) from downsouth Starkville,MS wants to work with you OR heck 2. Some "White Trash" from Arkansas/Louisiana etc. (your typical American thorough bred again) wants to work for you ... would you still consider these candidates?... I wonder! If you do then you are a sucker for local labor and hate offshoring ... if you don't you are either a racist bastard or just plain nutjob with no "life":cool: Timing is Everything

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S.R. Tiruvan wrote:

Wow! ... tell me are you hiring a Journalist or a computer programmer? ... I mean how much do you talk?

My current clients and other developers call me quite a bit. The last project I just finished had about 500 hours in phone calls to other developers.

S.R. Tiruvan wrote:

infact are you just full of it?

Look I appreciate your comments but please don't waste my time. I'm an adult running a *very* succesful business with depth in several technologies. Cut the nonsense.

S.R. Tiruvan wrote:

Anyways ... lets say 1. A negro (American born and bred) from downsouth Starkville,MS wants to work with you OR heck 2. Some "White Trash" from Arkansas/Louisiana etc. (your typical American thorough bred again) wants to work for you ...

You should read the conversation Nishant Sivakumar and I were having. Might help you to see where I was coming from.

S.R. Tiruvan wrote:

would you still consider these candidates?... I wonder!

If I never spoke with them I wouldn't no differently. I'd expect resumes and examples of a proven track record in development. Aside from that keep wondering.

S.R. Tiruvan wrote:

If you do then you are a sucker for local labor and hate offshoring ... if you don't you are either a racist bastard or just plain nutjob with no "life"

I will always pick local labor first and no that does not make me a sucker. You're close minded to think so. I buy groceries from local grocers, gas from local gas stations, computers from local vendors, etc... It's called supporting your local economy. Your second comment hints at your own short-comings. Please refrain from these comments in the future if you expect any replies from me. Have a good day. - Rex

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code-frog wrote:

The last project I just finished had about 500 hours in phone calls to other developers.

Now I don't know the size of your project nor do I know the total time spent on it but based on an average project timeline I would say 500 hours is way too much ... were you "let go" from the company for being this nit-picky?

code-frog wrote:

I'm an adult running a *very* succesful business

Your initial post contradicts you being an adult and if your biz was so successful you would be a busy man with no time to respond to my post :)

code-frog wrote:

You should read the conversation Nishant Sivakumar and I were having. Might help you to see where I was coming from.

I did ... Nish was being real polite but I guess you didn't get the point.

code-frog wrote:

I buy groceries from local grocers, gas from local gas stations, computers from local vendors, etc... It's called supporting your local economy.

You are an old fart who despises pretty much everything since the 90s ... right?

code-frog wrote:

Your second comment hints at your own short-comings.

What shortcomings? Using words like "Negro" and "White Trash" mean I am not a hypocrite ... just because these words are not said in America it doesn't mean they don't call them that in other parts of the world.

code-frog wrote:

Please refrain from these comments in the future if you expect any replies from me.

After looking at your initial post I don't want to hear back from you again.

code-frog wrote:

Have a good day.

Will do ... you have a good one yourself! Timing is Everything

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:rolleyes: Boy an entire world away and you know so much about me.:rose:

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I was very tired and exhausted when I made my original post. I had just finished about 6 months of working 100 hour work weeks on a project spanning almost a year that really kicked up in the end. I left my first post in tact because so many people had read it. I'm going to go remove the stuff about Indian contractors because it's really not applicable. My previous on-site job where the communication was face-to-face is what I was thinking and that simply won't be the case with this. You seem to have formed several opinions about me all of them wrong and that's fine. I cannot change the way you think. Unfortunately you are on a bender for me and I'm not interested in playing dodge-ball with you. Like you pointed out I do have work to do. I am not anti-Indian, anti-redneck, anti-anything. I'm very tired, I have to much work and I want to displace it off on people I can trust. If you are at all interested in that feel free to let me know. I'm quite happy to move right past where things are and directly into where things could be. I'm getting ready to launch an advertisement in a local business publication that will likely net a lot more work for me. Of that work I'd like to marshall almost all of it here to the CP consortium that gets formed. I'm hoping that in time other developers/freelancers/consultants will also start to advertise and attract work and we all can stay very happy, very busy and not have to have employees. I and others have there own web servers and if not on mine then on someone's I'd like to setup version control, multi-project issue-feature management (Developer-side and user-side.) I'd like to have an environment where new people interested in joining can post resume type data, links to their work, etc.. as well as sections where individual projects are scoped out, delegated, delivered, deployed and supported. Someday adapting VS TEAM SYSTEM might also be kind of fun. The sky is the limit on this and I want to see where it all goes. I'm going to guess you have the tallent/skills/abilities to be part of it and if you are interested just let me know. I deserve (in some ways) the harassment you have provided so far and that harassment has caused me to change my post as I have zero wish to exclude anyone based upon race, religion or gender nor the ability to speak audibly. What if a def individual wanted work? How would I manage that? I couldn't. So anyway. There's my vision that is growing and changing by the moment. P.S. - The project was enormous the 500 hours in phone calls were virtua

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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Yeah, I was kinda taken aback too! Though, at least he was honest about it.

Me thinks, I came across all wrong.:( Made a major mistake and am truly sorry for that. I was very tired, over-worked and should have thought more about *what* I was saying. My *very* sincere apologies and yes I was being honest but not in the way I intended (or should ever have).:rose:

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code-frog wrote:

My *very* sincere apologies and yes I was being honest but not in the way I intended (or should ever have).

Hey Rex, I posted that before I read your other posts about Wipro. If you look at the time-stamps, it was my first post in this thread. I now understand what you were trying to say, but when I made this specific post, I did feel a little taken aback. It's all okay now though :rose: Regards, Nish

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Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:

Lower costs. Definitely, software development in Mexico is much cheaper than in the United States.

Lower than here in Indonesia. How much per hour does the rate in US dollars? I think people around here will gladly take $2/hour work.

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No, I don't think the rate here is lower than in Indonesia. Here in Mexico it probably costs $25-35 (US dollars) per hour of work. However, our main advantage with US customers over India/Indonesia/anything-around-you is that our culture is very similar, the time zone is the same (I'm in Mountain time), and that traveling is actually practical, since a 1:30 hr flight will put me in Houston/Dallas and from there I can fly to anywhere in the US.

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