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I was very much interested to join a product based companies, where I believe the kind of quality work will more when compared to the Service based companies

Most of the people saying that in product based companies you will get less onsite when compared to the Service based company. I am not the person who is running behind to save money when we go for onsite. However I have few aspirations to travel onsite for few months once in two years.

I like will we get a chance to go onsite in product based companies, in what all the reason people will go onsite in a product based companies?
 
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If you are in a product development team don't expect an onsite. Even if you are sent it will not be for more than a week.
 
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Hi,

I have worked with product based firms as well as services based ones. The first thing I have experienced is that the quality of work cannot be graded just on this differentiation alone. I have worked with a few age old products for the print industry on Java platforms in which I have faced even database design issues. But the honest truth is no one wants to modify already existing code and they would rather develop a work-around solution to fix any bugs that may arise due to such basic flaws. Another problem is unless the product is a state of the art, latest technology based one there is more chance of having to work on older technologies than the latest hot ones. Service industry I feel will require constant up gradation of technical skills.

Coming to on site opportunities what the other poster had to say is correct. And to add it also depends on your position. A PM or a PL stands a far better chance for on site compared to a developer. In services it depends mostly on luck.

Cheers,
Raj.
 
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