I’ve worked with offshore dev teams in india, ukraine (2 locations) and romania. India was definitely the worst. I don’t think we ever reached a point where th

I’ve worked with offshore dev teams in india, ukraine (2 locations) and romania. India was definitely the worst. I don’t think we ever reached a point where the work lost to that team (hiring, training, coordinating, spoonfeeding, mess cleaning) was outweighed by actual productivity from them. In other words, I had the feeling that they should have been paying us instead of us paying them. Ukraine and romania were different. Still many problems inevitable to outsourcing, but at least the ROI made some amount of sense. Still, I don’t think offshoring is generally worth it. I saw firsthand how the CEO was looking at only half of the numbers (wages) while they weren’t factoring in losses caused by offshoring. I tried to argue this with him at one point, and his argument basically boiled down to: all these big corporations do it, and they can’t all be wrong. I figure all the CEO’s think that.