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In my experience, the Indian contractors are going to be lower rated technically, but for 1/4 the price you can question whether you NEED someone who's a 4/5 or
by Accujack 7y ago
In my experience, the Indian contractors are going to be lower rated technically, but for 1/4 the price you can question whether you NEED someone who's a 4/5 or whether you can get by with a 2 or 3.
Determining what functions need top technical people is something most managers figure out after offshoring, when the damage is already done.
Contractors are incredibly valuable in certain respects, but one thing they don't do generally is write code for future maintainability... they're under a lot of pressure to produce workable results quickly, which opposes planning for the long term technically speaking.
Like offshoring itself, that may not matter depending on the company and what it does.
- Trias11 7y agoAfter desperately trying to find local consultants to do $75K gig, we hired remote Indian person who did it for ~$13K. The delivered quality and timing exceeded our expectations. And honestly it changed the way i used to view remote offshore consultants.
- southern_cross 7y agoDid you consider remote, on-shore resources? Perhaps work-at-home folks, or those working remotely from other US cities? I ask because I've run into people who would otherwise normally insist that their domestic resources be local and in-house, but then would end up off-shoring stuff instead. WTF?
- Trias11 7y agoI absolutely did and will. Local are often preferred.