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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (44915)	11/20/2005 8:20:07 PM
From: Live2Sail	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

You're right, I've never managed an offshore group. I have been a part of a very large multi-site project, though. The engineering side of things went relatively smoothly. The VC's have little to say about the direction of mature companies like Intel, Sun, Cisco, IBM, Oracle. These types of companies are building big teams abroad -- teams that used to be built in SV, Portland, Austin, or somewhere else in the U.S. I have a friend at nVidia. I asked him if they were hiring. He said, "Hundreds. Mostly in India." Note that these jobs do not have to be "core" engineering functions. Google is but one company. It takes lots of small aspiring companies to hire what one large company offshores. Additionally, China is starting to be able to attract talent back there and retain talent that used to come here. VC money is also moving offshore. The last straw will be if U.S. science/engineering schools lose the foreign graduate students. Then it will be very ugly. L2S