Comment on Whiny US Software Developers by Jeffrey Palermo

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:40:03 -0800

I am a US developer (Texas), and I agree that too many people complain, and those complaints have no basis. Yes, there is outsourcing, but it's a fad that will fade away because the economics of it will balance on their own. I used to work for a large company where management started on the outsourcing trend. The problem was that management couldn't manage the local project, and they naively thought that putting the team half-way around the world would make it easier (it makes it harder).

In short, the programmers who blame someone else for the lack of their dream job lack ambitiona (as you allude to above). Good programmers will do what it takes to succeed, regardless of market trends.

I've also found that the ones who succeed are those who can learn faster than their peers (improve their skills).