I have worked with people from India who spoke better English than I do and outside Sarcasm that is the only language I know. They were a LOT cheaper than me and reading the rest of this thread I see i actually charge a little below the low side of what people consider normal rates. In some cases I was taking over projects from them and in other cases they were taking projects over from me. I also have dealt with a lot of very crummy made applications out of the India region but to be fair I have dealt with my fair share of crummy made ones that were made in the States too.
The big issue we have ran into though is the rather extreme "fudging" of skillsets from people in India. For our Java team we had to develop and entire process for validating their skillsets but then the next problem comes in and that is the huge turnover rates over in India. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Russ Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > > The $20 per hour rates mainly come form India via sites like > freelancer.com which is full of outsourcing companies. > This is what you have to compete with. > If a client wants to deal with someone native who speaks English > properly, then they will pay your rates, if they just want the > cheapest price possible then they will go to India. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347653 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
