Everyone has a story about how software projects go off-track and generally, it is not the nationality of the developers that matter. But here is an interesting

Everyone has a story about how software projects go off-track and generally, it is not the nationality of the developers that matter. But here is an interesting observation - you do not manage a remote, outsourced team of developers as if they were local. We know about this from software architecture too - a remote object is not the same as local object, no matter how much of abstraction you write to hide the fact. The abstraction is even more leaky for people. The rest of the comments ring true - if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. I recently read somewhere that software salaries are US > China > India > EU. A lot of people in US still carry the colonial mindset and that ship has sailed long past. For India, you are paying between 40% - 70% of an equivalent US developer pay if you hire them directly. You are likely to be paying more if you go through a contracting agency and the only reason to do it is because you want people fast and for a short term.