That's completely contrary to my experience. I've managed at least 3 Indian teams, worked with several more, and never had these issues. I admit, I might have a

That's completely contrary to my experience. I've managed at least 3 Indian teams, worked with several more, and never had these issues. I admit, I might have a problem with people who had fake degrees. I never bothered to check degrees, why do I care if they can pass the code interview? (The same one I give to US devs.) My teams are generally pretty flat, more or less the same as any team I've worked on in the US. I have heard of people having your experiences though; every single one was some clueless firangi who stayed at a fancy 5 star hotel for 2 weeks before jetting off, visited the Taj Mahal and was too scared to eat pani puri. Opening an office in any country is an investment. You need to integrate the teams, you can't just drop by, rent an office and hope your local handlers run things perfectly. When my company opened our Pune office (a 2 hour flight from the mothership in Delhi) we shipped a relatively large leadership team down. When we hired new people they were joining an existing company, they weren't just left to fend for themselves. That would be a disaster even if it was just a NY company opening a PA office.