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ilaksh on May 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Remote work means anyone can take your job

There are around 5 million software developers in China. Are you really sure it makes sense to assume that they all suck?

I'm sorry but that is a silly prejudice. You worked with one group.

gregkerzhner on May 28, 2020 [–]

China has the 7th lowest english speaking rate in the world. I doubt that they are going to be a large outsourcing hub to English speaking people any time soon. If you speak Mandarin though, its a great place to hire cheap developers - just look at Zoom.

ilaksh on May 28, 2020 | [–]

He said they were all bad developers.

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