Google on outsourcing

Interestingly, when we announced our engineering center in Bangalore, we found ourselves knee-deep in the debate about "outsourcing" -- the practice of cutting a company's American operations in favor of cheaper labor elsewhere. India in particular has been a subject of a lot of press coverage on this topic lately, which we find to be pretty unfair. It's not their fault they have a lot of brilliant computer scientists who don't care to relocate to the States.

Posted yesterday at the official Google blog. I couldn't agree more!

Comments

[ramanan]

Thanks for posting the quote. You'll be disappointed to learn that google has rewritten there second post.

[dj]

Gosh, your right. Good catch!

[CleverShark]

I wonder if that sort of backtracking is the sort of candor we can expect from this Google blog...

[zagg]

I think this may just have to do with the issue at hand. Offshoring is such a political hot button issue right now that most companies are trying to avoid acknowledging it.

As far as that second part, people shouldn't have to relocate to another country to get a job, but they also shouldn't have to accept 1/6th or 1/10th the salary because of that choice.