Incredible India - a PHP adventure - Part4
Another day in paradise chaos. Did I tell you that they do have people for everything? Washing your clothes with a machine? Nooo way this can be done by hand and you create a working place. Entering an elevator you have a guy pressing the knob for you. In the garage there are people guiding you to your parking place. Even in the office at the restroom there is a guy cleaning up directly after you - It is a bit scary when he is standing behind you when you… ah enough off that.
In the morning I managed to get up early and took a swim in the pool. Sounds refreshing? It was not. The pool still had nearly 30 degrees in the morning. And guess what? I had no breakfast after yesterdays best dinner in my life.
Till lunch we had more talks to check that the company understands what we want them todo. BTW they are really really professional. For everything exists a process - must be heaven for any ISO/CMMI professionals. We introduced our framework and showed them more details and source code about the tasks. This was followed by methodology and setup of our partnership. Everything need to be defined. The main difference here is that the people don’t count - just the process. Everything need to be defined and documented then the people behind the tasks can be exchanged easily. Totally different to the companies I know where single employees are sometimes quite important and even worse you might be depend on them. I am not sure that the indian way is the better - people simply don’t count much here.
After lunch we talked about the money. To make it short - india is not cheap at all. Costs are around 20-30% less then salaries in germany, but they include everything whereas in Germany you need to add office, administration, taxes etc. For sure you get cheaper employees but it is like everywhere - if you want quality you need to pay for it.
On the other hand if you have a clear defined task and you need to scale people fast - there is simply no other option then to offshore in india. Here you can get new employees in two weeks of time. Tomorrow we will test the technical skills - we will see.
This evening I won’t do anything. Staying in the hotel is enough after yesterdays dinner. And tomorrow germany will play in the semi-final - I really will try to watch the game. Let’s see if I can make it - they start around 00:15 here. Luckily all the indians here are also mad about european football so no one will blame me for staying up - they do the same.
Hey if you wait for pictures you need to wait a bit longer. I only have my eee with me, and there I can’t upload the pics from my mobile. So I will deliver them only when I am back - promised.
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Hello from St. Petersburg - swiming here is a more chilling experience 22 Centigrade insid and outside of the water - would be very interesting if sweating and searching PHP Professionals is worth the effort. Meanwhile go on with the funny reports - i adore this Story!