Of course they are hiring in Bangalore. Do they want to gain some sales in India or not? Or, do they want to have what happened to them in China (where they are behind because they entered China years too late.) The largest software company in the world had better be hiring in one of the world's largest markets (India). I like Dobb's a lot, but as you suggest he probably doesn't express it as a % and my guess is he doesn't know the difference between a technical support call center in India and Redmond's product development groups. Btw, the link you provided didn't contain anything about MSFT. At the end of the day, after speaking with half a dozen divisions (half a dozen different product lines), am seeing no job transfers and am seeing no exporting of America companies. Having said that, he'd probably find a huge RND group in India and use that as an example. Or he would confuse testing and international translations. What I am seeing is, a huge amount of hiring in India in a booming economy.
My only concern about Dobb's is if he promotes short-sighted protectionism. It's an insult to me and other people in this industry if he doesn't think I or we can compete. Let us compete and let us win - and have some confidence in our ability to compete and win, and give us environment and the tools to do so. Don't want the protective rug pulled out from under this country when we eventually retire a couple decades from now. Look no further than Ghandi's hometown to see the devastation of protectionism. Look no further than some of my ancester's former country, where Communism took out every corporate success story so the country went downhill. Look no further than my childhood where our community felt the pain of how the auto industry didn't stay competitive, due in part to bad management at the time and protective unions that made us less competitive than Toyota. Unlike the auto industry downturn, our hightech companies REMAINED competitive. That is very huge, important difference. Our auto companies were bleeding red and almost went bye-bye. Compare this to hightech, where upper management was smart in doing some offshoring to save our collective hightech butts. Look at Applied Materials whose revenue dropped a whopping 50% yet they retained the same headcount. If that was the auto industry, they'd be bleeding to the point they couldn't even turn around and get competitive again.
My childhood taught me (where I watched the pain in the auto community) it is absolutely mandatory we make sure our companies remain competitive. My Aunt was a union leader (not in the auto industry) and even as a hardcore liberal, she promoted competitiveness - if you are not competitive, you eventually have nothing. She was very respected by the media and they'd pull her out and put her on TV whenever there was a dispute between management and employees - she never gave an inch to either and demanded what was good to move the company into profitability and she did (she wasn't like this United Airlines Union leader.) Without competitive corporations, we won't have ANY wages. Protectionism scares me, because I saw what it did to the auto industry community and to my ancestors.
The most I'd advocate is a software credit to help folks like you, just like a manufacturing credit.
Regards,
Amy J |
