U.S. Jobs Outsourcing in Asia

[kolz]

hehehe...we filipinos engineers here in SD Calif. T.I. we call ourselves igorots, unsa man gibuhat sa mga lexmark phil engrs?....tig modify ramo ayaw mog deny. even your test engineers dn't know how to make apps for test,control & measurement in LABVIEW w/c is padala pa ninyo diri to train unsa baya nah?....wahahaha.....lupigon ramo sa mga technicians sa TI baguio who themselves make their own test fixtures for DSP chips, maowaw baya tah....

And to think that Lexmark engineers doesn't design SOCs, prototype them using VHDL and verilog, doing all the design here in Cebu even down to the silicon level? The Americans gave us these, because they trust our capability. What do you know about us that makes you hate soo much about Lexmark?

[kolz]

@rance i know labview is a simple test tool did i say lisod? what i said our technicians  could do it for you...ok i will give u'a case becoz u claim maayo kaayo ka sa labview.

build me a micro interrupt contoller fixture...that could detect interruptions as short as 1us but it should also consider a glitch if it's duration is 10us, i want 32 channels that could query  if there's a simultaneous interruptions in any of those channels. and i want u to design me a code that could gather data from a vibration machine well let's say your code could decode a  1g to 5g of force accelaration in a sine on random power density spectrum type in 50hz to 1khz spectrum. ok that's all. Are you up to the task? I want your hardware specs also. remember our technicians at baguio could do it for you...u should know this stuff kay taga lexmark man kaha ka....coz lexmark in conn. do some vibration test for their printers......

Mr. Ramsfield sir if you say you're good as you think you are. Don't ever criticize something for which you knew nothing about. Our engineers in Lexmark are as competent as the engineers in the US, Lexmark has hired the cream of the crop. Having left the company and now working as a Firmware and Image Science consultant for Eastman Kodak now, I knew for first hand whos capable of doing the task and not, I knew this because I have Australian, Japanese, Indian and Singaporean engineers that are currently working with me. Now we are sourcing people from the Philippines since we now need engineers with very good design capability - design SOCs from the ground up, even extending the design level down to the silicon level, and you would be surprised to find out that  out of the 10 slots we source from around the world the 7 who are highly qualified are Filipinos. I just felt the urge to defend my previous employer and their employees from being called incompetent engineers, since I owe a lot to them. When you're calling us Filipinos as incompetent, you're putting an insult to us all.

[off^tangent]

If der's one thing the philippine engineering schools are not teaching to the students, it's gud english grammar! Not even MIT.

[Streetcar]

I dont want to interrupt the good flow of discussions here but let me just comment that since the U.S. has chosen the Philippines as one of the outsourcing countries to handle the backbone of these operations it just tells you that the Philippines has a very competitive and highly skilled workforce. We should be proud of that. Also the Philippines is the only English fluent majority country in Asia and well-educated I'm sure that's one of the key factors they've considered.

[athlon XP-M]

I agree... :mrgreen:

[jay_sn0w]

sak2 partly pero dapat jd na those U.S. firms GIVE FAIR wages...dli ra kanang sukle nila...


OT; naay bay law na f naay mu outsource dire naa cla SPECIAL minimum wage..(which can be comparable 2 the wages of that firm)

[athlon XP-M]

A line taken on an article from a US magazine (Business Week)

"Design work is another place where Filipinos have and edge, according to Sigelman. He says he has found incredible depth of design talent in Manila (Philippines); the kind of talent that is hard to come by in Bangalore, Hyderabad, or Chennai."

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbi...gn_id=rss_null


Who says we Filipinos are not competent. We even outsmart them!

[jay_sn0w]

heheh..mao jd..mas hard workin jd ta f given the chances n the right benefits...

[r0mm3L]

I dont want to interrupt the good flow of discussions here but let me just comment that since the U.S. has chosen the Philippines as one of the outsourcing countries to handle the backbone of these operations it just tells you that the Philippines has a very competitive and highly skilled workforce. We should be proud of that. Also the Philippines is the only English fluent majority country in Asia and well-educated I'm sure that's one of the key factors they've considered.

hehe naay kulang..... kulangan ug "cheaper"

[cyril-crusade]

actually the philippines is no longer sa good in english as it used to be... that's the sad truth.