enortham Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 I’m interested in learning what the market for software engineers in Thailand is like. How do they compare to their western counter parts? Of course not everybody is the same but I imagine they are some cultural or skill generalities that may play a huge part in the overall success of a project or sanity of the manager. I’ve found a few sources, which I listed below, that indicate that the salaries average around 5k to 20k USD per year. I’m guessing that entry level engineers might fetch around 7k, mid 12k, and senior 17k USD per year. Does anyone know if that is a fair assessment? Also would those figures include the relevant payroll taxes that a company is required to pay? Ideally it would be great to know what the cost of each employee would average from the company stand point. Would Bangkok be the only good place to consider hiring engineers in Thailand or are there any other regions where it might be easy to recruit talented people and find the appropriate infrastructure to run an IT based business? Any help is appreciated and if anyone has any experience working in IT or experience running an IT based business I would love to hear about it. Thanks, Eric 2006 Outsourcing Guide: http://www.cio.com/archive/071506/global_outsourcing.html CertMag’s 2005 Salary Survey: http://www.certmag.com/articles/templates/...&zoneid=224 A bit dated salary survey: http://www.ethailand.com/index.php?compensation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grover Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 good post. i'm also interested in this information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retiree Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 See: Improving quality through software process improvement in Thailand: initial analysis Movorath Phongpaibul, Barry Bohem ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Vol 30, Issue 4 (July 2005) ABSTRACT For almost 10 years there have been attempts in Thailand to improve software quality by adopting western software process improvement models. Only 17 of the 380 companies in Thailand were able to implement software process models that we see here in the US. 14 out of the 17 companies were not able to improve their process to a higher level. Why were companies not successful in implementing these software process models? Did they find other ways to improve quality? The objective of this paper is to analyze the experiences of software developers, project managers and executive managers in implementing these software process models in Thailand. The results will show that cultural differences are a key factor to this problem. Thai people have different cultural values, which we will explore further in this paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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