I've worked for several companies that outsourced work. Only one project was what I would consider at all successful, and in that case, the US company was owne

I've worked for several companies that outsourced work. Only one project was what I would consider at all successful, and in that case, the US company was owned and managed by several people originally from China, and some development work was outsourced to China, to a company owned by the president's brother. How that managed to work, I'm still not completely sure, but it actually did, for the most part. In the other cases, the costs were much greater than expected, both because the companies we outsourced work to did not perform as expected, and because we had to spend extra time managing them and correcting their mistakes. The poor quality of work by the company we outsourced to was the main reason I left one job - I just did not believe the company could survive given the quality of the product. Plus I was tired of putting in 60-80 hour weeks trying to make up for the crappy job they were doing.