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October 21, 2005 6:22 AM PDT
Amazon opens second development unit in India
Amazon.com on Friday announced the opening of a software development center in Chennai, India. This will be Amazon's fourth such unit globally and its second in India.
The unit will develop new features for the Amazon Web site and also manage technology aspects of these features. That will include idea generation, analysis and technical design, as well as front-, middle- and back-tier software development, Amazon said. The company will begin hiring engineers and managers Nov. 14, but it did not say how many workers will be recruited.
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If you want my busniess then you better supply me with customer service, and technology provided, and produced by workers who at least have a rudimentary capablity of understanding my language.
This list is starting to get long, but there is no other way to get these bottom line hungry companies to get the point unless you just stop buying their products and services.
Foreign Outsourcing = Bad
Its as simple as that.
Enjoy the new trend.
reps. You have a valid complaint in terms of the outsourcing
issue, but realize that in this case at least we are talking about
software development, not anyone who you will deal with when
trying to contact the company.
As for the rest of it. Amazon needs excellent programmers and
engineers. Not good, not decent, but excellent. If they feel they
need another center with (likely) many, many workers, and they
feel that there aren't enough truly exellent programmers floating
around jobless in the States, then why shouldn't they look for
other resources? We are living in a world that is growing more
and more integrated. What is wrong, in an integrated world, with
giving preference for a job to the person best qualified for that
job, regardless of the language they speak? (Ignoring the fact
that a huge portion of the world speaks english, and likely many
of the amazon employees speak enough english to communicate
with their stateside counterparts).
Then again, perhaps I shouldn't eat at chinese (and other ethnic)
restaurants, because the kitchen staff might not speak english.
Read the story again. I guess you slept through the session on CAPITALISM when you were in school.
Why is it that Walmart MUST be allowed into India while US Cos should NOT go to India. Double standards eh?
Welcome to the world of free markets :)