We believe that trust is an asset that enterprises must understand and properly manage in order to be successful in today’s complex operating environment. Unlike reputation, which is based on an aggregate of past experiences with a company or brand, trust is a forward facing metric of stakeholder expectation.". http://www.edelman.com/insights/intellectual-property/2014-edelman-trust-barometer/about-trust/
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Well they say "Janitorial Engineer" now too. I guess it makes some feel their more important (usually because their not). If your good you don't worry about stuff like that.
Sounds so impressive, a seasoned coder. How about a seasoned engineer!!!
If you are rewriting the code from functionality documents what difference would the previous code even matter? What bullshit, anyone who knows coding knows this is just an excuse unless you are used to "copying" and "pasting" and then you wouldn't be optimizing and using the latest technologies which would mean your not seasoned coder and don't fully understand.
We are inheriting bad Follett code so we have plenty to blame.
44661 you are absolutely WRONG!
and eventually you will run out of people to blame for your crappy code.
hmmmm....I believe if you look around the 7th/10th floor, we now outnumber the regular Follett IT employees. Unless you are looking for severance pay out, writing is on wall.
“I am currently working with outsourced code,” said another. “I never knew how bad it could get.”....When Vasu Kulkarni, an entrepreneur who grew up in India but went to college at the University of Pennsylvania....he closed down his entire India office and moved all the programming onshore".....
(KHAZANOCT,2013)
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/behind-the-bad-indian-coder/280636/
http://www.rozinskiy.com/why-india-outsourcing-is-doomed/
India is a provider of cut rate workers. You get what you pay for.
India is a technology leader. The leader of Microsoft is Indian and there are many others. We offer inexpensive labor (not cheap) to perform the work at 25% of the cost to US coders. Most US coders are not degreed but self taught. Regarding coding in english, we are bi-lingual which is more than I can say for most US employees. Learn quickly - this is a world economy and you must compete against all countries. I wonder how many jobs would be lost if there was no limit on the number of visa's offered by the US government. Luckily your government has protectionist policies.
Last time I looked, you had to do all your coding in English because all the coding languages are in English.
Check the stats on the leading technology countries. India isn't even in the top ten. Cheap labor is what is offered and it takes what "hundreds" to the job, really? Oh and that technology being used are from innovations, inventions and advancements but guess what countries? I think some countries should be more grateful, because they didn't invent it.
For all of you wondering, that is India technology, not American technology. Americans are quite stupid. We take their jobs right from under their nose.
No we really don't have technology this leadership handed it over it's core, what many consider it's intellectual property know-how to another company. Needless to say not even an American company and one that has on more than one occasion shown itself to to be quite capable of lawlessness practices. So some may consider do they have interest in Follett succeeding? For it well may to be someone else's benefit if this company were to fail.
Re: 43992, I am making a difference today.......somewhere else.
I think some folk have been in India a little too long. They came back with mantras to Hinduism, Shiva, Vishnu and Surya and the others. I wish they would come back to reality and look at the numbers and tell us what September sales were, not this FB mubojmo.
Follett employees barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild and engage them. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's finest workforce. Better than they were before. Better, stronger, faster.
Nice try. The post is about trust. Trying to change the topic doesn't change the fact that Follett has lost the trust of their employees.
The only way to overcome hard luck is to work even harder - make a difference today.
One of the key attributes to building trust is "treat employees well". You fail. http://www.edelman.com/insights/intellectual-property/2014-edelman-trust-barometer/building-trust/