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Unfortunately the MBA who pushed for offshoring has usually switched jobs before the project inevitably blows up in their face. One horror story I had some tang

Unfortunately the MBA who pushed for offshoring has usually switched jobs before the project inevitably blows up in their face. One horror story I had some tangential knowledge of involved hiring a team of ~20 full-time Indian devs, based on that logic that they were a fraction of the cost. After months of receiving bug-riddled junk, the company started looking into what the problem was. Upon investigation, it turned out that several of the devs only existed on paper, the rest were mostly triple or quadruple assigned to multiple projects (despite paying for them being full-time), and it was really 2-3 guys who would write code, email it to the other devs, and have them commit it in order to make it look like the whole team was working. The end result was months of wasted time, an awful lot of wasted money, and no way of getting it back, thanks to India's notoriously corrupt judicial system.

seibelj 4y ago
My favorite Indian outsource story was when I was consulting for a local firm and they paid me to design and plan how to kick off a project. I recommended hiring 5 skilled US software engineers and it could be done within a year. CEO wound up hiring 80 (yes 80!) full time Indian devs on the recommendation of his Indian CTO. They paid me to review the commits after a week and a quick scan showed it was totally plagiarized from a public repo and had zero value. The CTO responded by firing me. 6 months later the CEO asks me to get drinks. The CTO turned out to be a scam artist, all the devs were junk, wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars paying for an army or worthless devs, and the CTO sued the CEO for fraud (???) perhaps as a first strike in a potential lawsuit he knew would come.