Stop Offshoring
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011
 
I saw a post titled "What's wrong with CS in India" that describes some of the problems that I've encountered working with Indian offshore teams.

  • Point 1 - As the blog post says, "the usual quality of work is rather crappy". I agree. There were so many bugs coming out of the Indian teams that it took as long for the local employees to fix them as it would've taken us to implement the features ourselves.
  • Point 2 - Lack of passion/direction. This is something that I find in local employees as well, but at least you can find local employees who are passionate about their work and the company. With offshore teams, they don't have the drive to go above and beyond. Maybe it's because of the organizational arrangement between a parent company and its offshore team, but you can't expect an offshore worker to care about their work as much as a local worker.


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