Offshore Programmers: The Wave of the Future?

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This article discusses some of the issues related to a trend toward outsourcing significant amounts of programming from the United States to countries such as India that have many skilled programmers who are willing to work for comparatively low salaries.

Questions:

1. How does Cognizant Technology Solutions organize programming project to attain the benefits of offshore programming while minimizing some of the difficulties of programming from remote sites?

2. What issues are central to the debate about expanding the H1B visa program, which permits more foreign nationals to work in the United States in jobs such as programming? Who are the stakeholders and what are some of their viewpoints?

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