[Coco] Expert C programmer wanted

[Allen Huffman]

On Feb 6, 2005, at 2:43 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> Does anyone contract embedded projects to India? I would bet most of it
> happens here.

Yes.  Quite common, it seems.  After I was laid off in 2001, I went to 
work for a Silicon Valley company where I was one of 3 non-Indian 
engineers.  There was to be a much larger devteam in India working on 
it, but the presence in San Jose/USA was important from a marketing 
standpoint.

Also, at my current job, I just heard from a group in India maintaining 
an OS-9 product that originated in the US but the company was bought 
out (I assume) and now moving forward everything is being done in 
India.  So, it was amusing to me -- an Indian engineer in India calls 
tech support and gets to speak with a guy with an American accent in 
the USA ;-)  Talk about reversal.

And my view was talking about all the small devteams that did the stuff 
for Cybiko (Russia? Names sounded Russian) and the like, just cranking 
out their toolset and games and such.

Yep, as much as I hate outsourcing, frankly, I'd much rather have spent 
2003 getting paid $6.50 and hour to sit in a cubicle and program than 
making the $6.50/hour I was standing in the back of a home improvement 
store trying to sell cell phones.  I know alot of "it would cost 
$50,000 to make me do this" US engineers who have been out of work for 
over a year -- or, like me, ended up taking crappy jobs just trying to 
keep some bills paid.  I think we did it to ourselves ;-) to be honest.

		-- Allen