I think it's not a dichotomy if it's good or bad, when you think from which stakeholder perspective you are using, the answer is diametrically opposite: "Outso

I think it's not a dichotomy if it's good or bad, when you think from which stakeholder perspective you are using, the answer is diametrically opposite: "Outsourcing devs to India" - this may be an oversimplification - Shareholders: Saving money, more money to Shareholders pocket hopefully - Management: Decreasing costs, better path to achieve xyz goals; therefore easier to meet bonus targets - Dev team: Increasing uncertainty about job security, quality of product losing control - PM, UI/UX, designers, related fields: Increasing uncertainty about job security, more overhead to develop products and features; potentially slower feature release - Other teams in the company: increasing more work to deal with teams in different parts of the world (but that's already happening with Uber with teams across the world) - India's devs: more high quality and better paying jobs - India's devs market: slight increase in competition of quality devs - Consumers and User: minimal disruption, they don't care I think the Outsourcing can be done because not all dev work is weighted equally across the board. Are you going to use a $300K dev to correct a spelling mistake in an app or use that dev to further the AI development of autonomous driving system? I cannot answer why this is not a good approach but it sounds reasonable. Now, there are a lot of other consequences of outsourcing the work if you proceed to second order thinking. Having Uber to vouch and invest in India will increase its prestige in software development market further; however, for the US side, that only adds more pain to the idea that big corporations are self interested only and undermines the US labor market.