There was a big push to off-shore everything about 10ish years ago...US Programmers thought it was the end of the world. As mentioned, companies found out it r

There was a big push to off-shore everything about 10ish years ago...US Programmers thought it was the end of the world. As mentioned, companies found out it requires an entirely different approach to get quality projects out of these teams. And often times, the time zone difference was the least of the issues. Cultural and language barriers can have a much larger impact then time zones.