Re: I hope people flee RackSpace
I've been through this several times now in different companies and I have never seen a successful offshoring effort yet. You may keep the lights on, but you lose very experienced staff through short sightedness, getting them to train up people who leave as soon as they become remotely useful and it's repeat again. PMs are pushy and expect devs to work 24x7 with no focus on quality, just quantity.
Future proofing of the product doesn't matter as it's all about short term looking good and the fact they won't be there in a years time anyway.
I'm glad I don't have many years left in an industry I used to love and I'm certainly not the only experienced person in IT saying the same thing. Quality and experience seems to count for nothing these days.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
