RE: Midrange Jobs National Discussion

I'm resending this since I incorrectly replied to the message;
 
To Mr Leverich,
 
Spoken like a true employer. 
 
So far all of the outscourced code that has been written for my company has 
been so poorly written that we have been feverishly working to rewrite it.  I 
guess you get what you pay for, although it seems like we could have written 
the code for a lot less than what our company paid for outsourcing.  Most new 
systems work great until there databases are bulging with information, then you 
see just how poorly the applications perform.  Foreign programmers generally 
have had a very quick training course to get them up a coding.  Logic skills 
aren't very important to these outsourcing companies, all they're interest in 
is producing a large volume of inferior code.  
 
I don't think it's the lack of the employees eagerness to learn new 
technologies that's the problem with the american worker.  It's upper 
managements view of IT more as a liability than an asset.  I've kept up with 
the new technologies as much as possible, but still companies are looking for 
cheaper not better.  
 
The consulting company that was brought in for the last project used H1B 
programmers.  Many times during the project I had to go through their code to 
find obvious logic bugs and this was written in a programming language that I 
was not familiar with.  Yet I was still able to find their logic errors.  My 
company eventually brought a lawsuit against them for this incompetance.
 
The biggest offenders of this practice seems to be New York based companies.  I 
would advise job hunters to avoid the New York area for employment.  There are 
many other areas in the country that appreciate experience and talent and have 
a better cost of living.
 
So stick that in your pipe Mr. Leverich.
 
Basil Zangare
Employed Programmer
 
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