by Alex » Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:46 pm
Spigzy wrote:It's not relevant, there's not a single IT skill you have that isn't available in this country by local talent at a tenth of the price - from university graduates right through to CISCO certified engineers.
With all due respect, that is very obviously nonsense. There's some truth in it as far as run of the mill, mainstream IT skills are concerned, but go beyond that and you will quickly find that Cambodia's talent pool is quite limited - and I'm mostly talking about the number of talented and properly educated (or experienced) IT people here, not about any individual's skills which can indeed be just as impressive in Cambodia as anywhere else. You won't get those for cheap though, not in Cambodia and not anywhere else, because they can and do move wherever the best opportunities open up. The same problem exists even in neighboring Vietnam, with its much larger population and a significantly better education system.
You work (or used to work) for Wing, so let's just use that as an example - look at Wing's website and their apps. The website is mostly useless and a catastrophe by any standard. I cannot comment on the iOS app, but the Android app is quite decent and gets the job done, for the most part - hardly world class though! Now, keeping in mind that Wing's offerings are superior to most I've seen from other companies based in Cambodia, if there's any outstanding IT talent that's available at a tenth of the price, it must be very well hidden. And that is just web and app development (i.e. hardly what the top of the crop usually get involved in) - in other IT fields it even looks much worse.
[quote="Spigzy"]It's not relevant, there's not a single IT skill you have that isn't available in this country by local talent at a tenth of the price - from university graduates right through to CISCO certified engineers.[/quote]
With all due respect, that is very obviously nonsense. There's some truth in it as far as run of the mill, mainstream IT skills are concerned, but go beyond that and you will quickly find that Cambodia's talent pool is quite limited - and I'm mostly talking about the number of talented and properly educated (or experienced) IT people here, not about any individual's skills which can indeed be just as impressive in Cambodia as anywhere else. You won't get those for cheap though, not in Cambodia and not anywhere else, because they can and do move wherever the best opportunities open up. The same problem exists even in neighboring Vietnam, with its much larger population and a significantly better education system.
You work (or used to work) for Wing, so let's just use that as an example - look at Wing's website and their apps. The website is mostly useless and a catastrophe by any standard. I cannot comment on the iOS app, but the Android app is quite decent and gets the job done, for the most part - hardly world class though! Now, keeping in mind that Wing's offerings are superior to most I've seen from other companies based in Cambodia, if there's any outstanding IT talent that's available at a tenth of the price, it must be very well hidden. And that is just web and app development (i.e. hardly what the top of the crop usually get involved in) - in other IT fields it even looks much worse.