[ajug-members] Wipro coming to Atlanta

[Trujillo, Marty]

Leif,

 

I think it's obvious that dumping 500+ java developers on the Atlanta
market would drive the price paid for an individual developer down.
With that said (written) it's not obvious that Wipro will be bringing
500+ developers with them.  My guess is that Wipro believes that they
will be able to make a nice profit by finding contracts here (the South
East) and then managing teams (made up of people here in Atlanta and
elsewhere) that will implement those projects.  I would guess that they
will try to send as much work as possible to cheaper venues, but that
they are admitting that some of the work will need to be done here too.

 

I think this is probably a positive event for developers in Atlanta, but
a negative event for developers in the US.  

 

Respectfully,

 

Marty

 

 

  

 

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From: ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org
[mailto:ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org] On Behalf Of Leif Wells
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:18 PM
To: General AJUG membership forum (100-200 messages/month)
Subject: Re: [ajug-members] Wipro coming to Atlanta

 

Brian,

I am not trying to tell you that you are wrong, nor do I know any
insider information about this situation, but in reading the article you
mentioned I don't really see what large effect this will have on our
community as a whole. 

Are you assuming that people from other countries are going to come in
and take these jobs?
Are you assuming that having 1000 (probably closer to 500) more
developers in Atlanta is going to make a dent in the world-wide
Enterprise Java market talent shortage? 
Do you think, since the article cites the "labor force and proximity to
technical schools" as reasons for choosing Atlanta, that they will be
poaching your clients or employees?

I am just trying to get a handle on why you'd think that more local
options Java developers (both the inexperienced and the highly
experienced) makes for bad news. 

Seriously, I would like to better understand why this would be bad.

Leif




On 8/2/07, Brian Whitfield / Essential Resources <
brian_whitfield at mindspring.com <mailto:brian_whitfield at mindspring.com> >
wrote:

There are LOTS of reasons this is bad.  I'll give a big one - If there
is a company in Atlanta that has hundreds of java developers working for
rates typically below those of American workers - what do you think that
does for rates/salaries, etc?  If all of a sudden the market is flooded
with java people - what does that do for supply and demand?  This can
and will affect the IT market in Atlanta.  It has to.  

 




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