My experience with working with Asia off-shoring is with physical products, so this was interesting to see the software perspective where there are multiple pro

My experience with working with Asia off-shoring is with physical products, so this was interesting to see the software perspective where there are multiple programmers working on something in parallel, whereas my experience is more serial with the (English speaking) sales contact communicating with the various engineering teams as the project gets passed along. Definitely agree with the can-do attitude of China. Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised, other times a vendor thinks they are doing us good and screw us over by completing work before we have agreed to it. This is mostly a temporary issue until you build a relationship with the vendor (in China, relationship is everything) and know each other's expectations. While I've never worked with an Indian vendor directly, it is interesting to hear about how people there have very narrow knowledge bases. This is something I've noticed with people I've interviewed that are recent immigrants, they know their area, but when asked about the rest of what we would be asking them to do they have zero clue. This is also (lesser so) a case with recent Chinese immigrants. Not great when we are essentially hiring a mechanical equivalent of a full stack engineer.