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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Funny, that sounds exactly like our experience with an Indian engineering contractor. It gives our management a warm fuzzy because the rates are low, but when they have to do the same job 3-4 times because they keep getting it wrong....... Not to mention that in order for them to actually do anything, we have to spend so much time outlining the task that it would be quicker to just do it ourselves. Fortunately our management is starting to catch on.
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Yep, I have written "pseudo-code", which is usually just an English-like description of the processing, but when I am sending stuff offshore it is the actual code I expect to have written. (I have literally made the exercise of sending specs offshore a copy-and-paste exercise for the programmer.) I get back something completely different that doesn't work. If what I get back doesn't match what I asked for, I just toss it. I'm supposed to get back code that is compiled, unit tested, and meets standards, but most of the time it does none of those three.