E-Commerce Times Talkback

Andre Brassard keeps sending out resumes but has largely given up on the profession that employed him for a decade: writing software. In his old department at Mindspeed Technologies Inc., most of the software engineers are gone. The work Brassard and his colleagues did is now largely done in Ukraine for one-quarter to one-third the cost. "What has happened to me is irreversible," Brassard said. "It's not like the downturn of 10 years ago. Then it was just bad times."