In my experience, they are hit or miss like everyone else. If you wanna pay high wages, you're more likely to get a great dev, like everyone else. Most companie

In my experience, they are hit or miss like everyone else. If you wanna pay high wages, you're more likely to get a great dev, like everyone else. Most companies buy the "top quality at cheap price," line that many of them pitch. That's when they get into trouble. I blame the companies for selling in bad faith and I blame the execs for falling for it because they are blinded by cost cutting bonuses. Those execs then go on to brag about it on their resume and get hired by another company for more money to cause the same type of disaster. Rinse repeat. Good for the outsourcing companies, good for the execs, bad for the existing dev team, bad for the hiring company. This has happened so many times over the last 20+ years, I'm amazed it still works. Here is a very egregious example but it's still funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mfohGyeBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mfohGyeBg