Re: we are looking for experienced php programmers full time freelance...

tedd wrote:

<rant> [snip] However, considering the experiences I've had with Indians, Hope you are serious about this sentence.. Out of entire Indian population, there are ~750,000 IT professionals. How many did you meet? Out of these how many experiences were bad/worse?

I don't mean to sound racist, but "I have found" there is a significant difference between our cultures with respect to the meaning of "your word" -- and as such, I will not do business with any Indian company NOR with any company (domestic or overseas) that hires an Indian to negotiate a contract!

"I have found" it is simply a waste of my time to try to find profitable common ground. They are concerned with one thing, and one thing only, and that is how cheap can they get it Ooh, I am starting to wonder why numerous US companies have there BPOs and Call Centers in India (leave software factories alone) if the motive is not cheap (as in cost) service for the kind of quality they get vs what they would get their own country.

-- and they seldom have a clue as to what "it" is -- but, contrary to their lip-service, it certainly isn't quality. I have seen them waste several million dollars to save less than ten thousand (no lie). It was with an oil deal, not programming, and these people were just plain stupid. .. and your this conclusion is based on how many such incidences..? One? Two?

I have seen several cases where police held US citizens for illicit trafficking, child pornography (in Goa) etc. Can I extrapolate these instances to draw some conclusion about entire country?

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