Every time I fly back to Michigan to visit family, I get asked about all the programming jobs being moved over to India. I do see it happening at IBM where more, and more jobs are being moved to India and China.

My response every time is the same. If you are a good programmer, you will always have a job, regardless of what gets moved to India. Good programmers are hard to find whether it’s in the US or in India. And at the risk of angering anyone in India, I do not believe that there is a high level of quality code coming from India. That is not to say that India will not develop their programming skills, but today I much rather have code from the US.

To be honest, it does not really bother me that corporations are moving jobs to save money. This is the type of capitalism that made our country. Would it not be hypocritical to naysay it now?

Putting aside the humanistic views, moving programmers overseas is not that different from corporations moving manufacturing to China to reduce cost. What is the difference between high volume, low quality code and high volume, low quality parts?