Hehe: we finally found a guy to run the Indian team who had worked in the US and he filled that integrator role. It was honestly an order of magnitude performan

Hehe: we finally found a guy to run the Indian team who had worked in the US and he filled that integrator role. It was honestly an order of magnitude performance improvement after he was in place, plus he (partially) solved the time zone issue, which you are right was quite frankly a major pain. If I never have another 11pm or 7am conference call I will be forever grateful. Communication was a serious issue: even in English it was bad enough, and I shudder to think about what it would be like with a non-English speaking country. I guess ultimately you CAN make it work and there are SOME cost efficiencies to be gained but even in India we see large companies like IBM and Verizon who end up building out these massive facilities (regular power generation comes to mind: Delhi had these huge power outages and we eventually had to buy our team there power inverters just so they could work part of the time between 11am and 4pm) to normalize the development experience: I question if there are any cost savings left after that kind of infrastructure build out. And yes, it completely destroys your personal productivity, but the hope is that the multiplier effect gets you more value than writing the code yourself: I'm as yet unconvinced that it really works that way, but what do I know.