Because outsourcing anything sucks, whether to India or within the U.S. The only reason you don’t hear horror stories about outsourcing to the US is because no

Because outsourcing anything sucks, whether to India or within the U.S. The only reason you don’t hear horror stories about outsourcing to the US is because no one does that since there is no reason to. Most companies that are offshoring to India are doing really well (which is almost every major IT company). The difference is that they aren’t “outsourcing”. They’re simply developing teams there that work in collaboration with and using the same principles as their teams in the US. As long as you offshore in a way that keeps incentives aligned (which is rarely the case with outsourcing), you will probably do equally well.