When a good Filipino programmer makes all Filipino programmers look good
I’ve encountered many foreign clients who has special preference on the type of nationality a web programmer or designer has. Some would opt for an all Ukrainian programmer, others prefer Indians or Filipinos. But whatever their preferences are, it simply boils down to the past experience they had. Their assumptions are, if I hired a good Filipino programmer once then most of the Filipino programmers are good - and vise versa.
The problem with these assumptions is that if they hired an incompetent Filipino programmer, then all Filipino programmers are affected. Many programmers, not only Filipinos, are already jumping into projects that still doesn’t match their skills hoping to learn while working. It’s a gamble, which I also did before, that most often results in failed projects and miserable clients promising themselves not to hire another programmer with same nationality as the one he hired.
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