> the Indian team. They had the tendency to be overly literal and "by the book"
My anecdote: We had a spec for a financial business application. Two of the database fields were last-changed-username and last-changed-timestamp. The document mistakenly had them populated backwards, specifying that the current user's name should be populated into last-changed-timestamp and vice versa. You can guess what happened when the Indian outsourcee coded it.
"I ran this and got a type conversion error. Did you even test it?"
"Yes, I got the same error and that is what should have happened based on the spec."
"How did you test the rest of it, then?"
"I was unable to proceed because of that error."
(I'm not generalizing from this one programmer to all Indians. I'm sure programmers that dumb exist everywhere.)
My anecdote: We had a spec for a financial business application. Two of the database fields were last-changed-username and last-changed-timestamp. The document mistakenly had them populated backwards, specifying that the current user's name should be populated into last-changed-timestamp and vice versa. You can guess what happened when the Indian outsourcee coded it.
"I ran this and got a type conversion error. Did you even test it?"
"Yes, I got the same error and that is what should have happened based on the spec."
"How did you test the rest of it, then?"
"I was unable to proceed because of that error."
(I'm not generalizing from this one programmer to all Indians. I'm sure programmers that dumb exist everywhere.)