Its really hard with all those difficulties. This exists in any development agency, or company. Most offshore companies focuses on business rather than the planning and code quality.
They just don't have time to make sure it's better quality, all that matters is how many clients they can get, how much money they can extort.
Bitter truth saw myself and heard from many developer friends. Same story over and over. I agree with all specified difficulties and the only thing most ended up was to either move to a better company or just accept it as is. Many got burned trying to make the company change it's view, because well, they don't understand it and don't care about it.
If you somehow talk about tests and all those techy stuff, you will get a really good scolding from those boss, they don't want to waste on such silly stuff. They will tell you to just make it work for now, also they will scold you later cause it doesn't work and lots of bugs.
Oh, and good companies/teams that actually do care will have a very tight and quality management. You will be able to tell that from how the HR behaves and acts. Good teams only accepts good developers.
If you look how some gets really low pay with 60-80 hours work week on some corporate project. I'm extragratting, but you can hear it from the complaints. These low quality work/projects cannot have high amount of salary, because most either goes to the bosses or the project ends up as failure.
It takes time. I had a hard time convincing my parents about software development for 8 years in my country. If parents takes so much time, it is understandable that the companies will take even more time to understand the real value. It's nothing but cheap labor to some.
"He just sits there and types some code, why should I pay him so much?"
You can move away and try another team with better project management, but it will be same if all people have same cheap labor mindset.
Its really hard with all those difficulties. This exists in any development agency, or company. Most offshore companies focuses on business rather than the planning and code quality.
They just don't have time to make sure it's better quality, all that matters is how many clients they can get, how much money they can extort.
Bitter truth saw myself and heard from many developer friends. Same story over and over. I agree with all specified difficulties and the only thing most ended up was to either move to a better company or just accept it as is. Many got burned trying to make the company change it's view, because well, they don't understand it and don't care about it.
If you somehow talk about tests and all those techy stuff, you will get a really good scolding from those boss, they don't want to waste on such silly stuff. They will tell you to just make it work for now, also they will scold you later cause it doesn't work and lots of bugs.
Oh, and good companies/teams that actually do care will have a very tight and quality management. You will be able to tell that from how the HR behaves and acts. Good teams only accepts good developers.
I just wonder why they can be BOSS as I do not know the basic stuff.
Well,
If you look how some gets really low pay with 60-80 hours work week on some corporate project. I'm extragratting, but you can hear it from the complaints. These low quality work/projects cannot have high amount of salary, because most either goes to the bosses or the project ends up as failure.
Why why why. Why are there so many so poor project?
How can I get rid of these project?
It takes time. I had a hard time convincing my parents about software development for 8 years in my country. If parents takes so much time, it is understandable that the companies will take even more time to understand the real value. It's nothing but cheap labor to some.
"He just sits there and types some code, why should I pay him so much?"
You can move away and try another team with better project management, but it will be same if all people have same cheap labor mindset.
Therefore, We should try to think about high-value programming.
What would be included for high-value?