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I was in a grad program (MS in CS) at a US University, with the majority of the program filled with students from India. They all lived together, studied together, exchanged homework with each other (in class, and from different semesters), and also exchanged exam answers with each other from semester to semester (since it appeared that the questions didn't change much). Finally, a large group was caught cheating together during an exam.
The odd thing, is that as a Grad Assistant, when I was in charge of hiring new GAs, every student from India lied outright on their resumes. Everyone of them said they were experts in all areas of MS networking, applications, and all of them were engineers. As soon as I asked any questions about something relatively simple in networking, not a single one knew the answer.
Maybe before we outsource (and I dont' think we should), we need to check to see who is actually doing the work, and doing some testing to see if they can do what they claim. Isn't it more efficient to write better code once, than to spend all of the extra time troubleshooting and rewriting code that never gets written correctly (even if they charge less to do it)?
The odd thing, is that as a Grad Assistant, when I was in charge of hiring new GAs, every student from India lied outright on their resumes. Everyone of them said they were experts in all areas of MS networking, applications, and all of them were engineers. As soon as I asked any questions about something relatively simple in networking, not a single one knew the answer.
Maybe before we outsource (and I dont' think we should), we need to check to see who is actually doing the work, and doing some testing to see if they can do what they claim. Isn't it more efficient to write better code once, than to spend all of the extra time troubleshooting and rewriting code that never gets written correctly (even if they charge less to do it)?
