Off-shoring is hard. But it can be done right. It requires honest intentions and a commitment of enough financial resources. If a firm is off-shoring simply to

Off-shoring is hard. But it can be done right. It requires honest intentions and a commitment of enough financial resources. If a firm is off-shoring simply to get the cheapest devs, its not going to work. One of the first companies I worked at had an India office even though the company was pretty small (~50 engineers in total). The Director of the India office was good at recruiting good engineers and they were paid much above market rates for the city they were based in (still less than what US based developers were making). This situation worked out best for everyone. The only problem was when scheduling long face to face meetings, which had to be done either super early or later in the night. But I felt it was a small price to pay to get to recruit a lot of good talent.