FACTS The success of a Vietnamese company depends largely on the boss or CTO, CEO... Except the state-owned companies, the private sector is aware of the importance of the leadership and training so there is ever-increasing number of courses to assist SMEs and train the specialists for working in the international firms.
Vietnamese has a very good Math background like China and India. Such information can be found on various media sources regarding the annual international mathematical olympiads. As 20 years as recently, Vietnamese continues to reap more success in Informatics and Robotics. Vietnam has the odds againsts other countries in the region.
Below are the list of pros and cons when considering Vietnam as new destination for outsourcing.
PROS
- Dynamic, fast and agile.
- No nationalism like China, India.
- Most Vietnamese people are atheist.
- No political conflict (like extrajudicial killings in the Philippines), almost no significant natural disasters.
- Pretty pleasant weather with 4 seasons in the North, but hot all year with rainy and dry seasons in the South.
- Vietnamese is quite proactive and eager to be self-reliant b/c most of them raised in the poor families during 1980s period.
- Vietnamese has very quick capability of adopting cutting-edge technologies. This is really a plus sign when working with them. Many Vietnamese developers have contributed remarkably to technical publications like codeproject.com. More and more people are aware of the efficiency of on-the-job trainings so apart from working, they apply for crash courses, blended learning and invest money earned into international certifications (PMP, PMI-ACP, Google certifications, Microsoft .NET MCSD etc)
CONS
- The innovation! This cons is originally caused by the problems of society during the 1980s decade in which most people born before 1980 had to struggle with making ends meet than improving their career development. Fortunately, this has been improved remarkably recently.
- The average expertise of entire group is lower than neighboring countries, but the average expertise of top-north individuals is better than most Asian countries, except Singapore.
- Vietnamese is aggressive than ASEAN countries but more quite and gentle than Chinese.
- Although their English speaking skill isn't the pros, but the reading and writing skills is super good. Their English wring style is simple and understandable. Like Chinese and Philippines, Vietnamese speaks English with less impact by regional accents.
You will usually find that any company with an acceptable level of competency in the software industry will usually charge you through the roof; the lower the prices, the lower the quality standard of the applications. That is usually the trend you will see in the industry. However, TIGO team creates the applications with attention to detail, and you get all this at an affordable price.
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