alt Hacker News> In my experience in big-tech, a lot of the overseas jobs were historically supporting roles and “keep the lights on” for legacy services.
I know a couple of tech CEOs (very small services companies), and they use offshore for all development. They don't have a single US engineer; only project managers.
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JeffMcCune • yesterday at 8:59 PM
These are effectively MSPs and perform the kind of role GP describes.
aprilthird2021 • yesterday at 10:33 PM
If it's very small services companies using offshore for all development, they're not big tech at all
> They don't have a single US engineer; only project managers.
That's what I never understood... why not outsource the project managers too? What is it about _project management_ that only onshore Americans can do? Whatever you think of programming, project management is much easier than programming.