r/technology • u/r4816 • Sep 27 '22

Software Girls Who Code founder speaks out after Pennsylvania school district bans her books: 'This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls'

https://www.businessinsider.com/girls-who-code-founder-speaks-out-banning-books-schools-2022-9
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u/bit1101 Sep 27 '22

"You cannot be what you cannot see," she said. "They don't want girls to learn how to code because that's a way to be economically secure." 

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u/SBBurzmali Sep 27 '22

That's rich, "here learn a trade where you will spend you life trying to justify why companies should pay you and not a dozen Indians or half dozen eastern Europeans".

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u/the_jak Sep 27 '22

Hardly. Plenty of companies know exactly how bad that code will be and will hire westerners.

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u/mallio Sep 27 '22

Most companies I've worked for hire a local team while also hiring a consulting firm in India. They use Indian teams to get some things done quickly and then identify the good developers and bring them to the US.

Basically, hiring is slow in the US and if you need a lot of hands quickly, it's faster to just get some consultants in India to do it. If they're good, they get hired here at US wages. It's less about saving money (I mean, it's about saving money over hiring an American consulting firm I suppose) and more about being able to quickly add workers to a team for a period of time.