Comment by torginus
3 hours ago
>and outsource everything they perceive ads no value.
In their defense, if they know they have no inhouse competence and their existing org structure is not good for building software, then doesn't it make sense to contract people who do and can?
Also, if Germans admittedly are not great at building good UX, and/or software, there are countries/companies who definitely don't suffer from that shortcoming.
And I'm not sure why German cars suck == Europe is doomed, what about the infotainment on Renaults?
> then doesn't it make sense to contract people who do and can?
Except they don't. They contract it out to the cheapest bidder because they optimize for cost over innovation.
Do you have sources on this? I interviewed for a company that built software for high-end German cars, and their compensation wasn't bad.