We had some Indian devs in a subsidiary for years, and that absolutely tracks. Cross-cultural communication is an actual field of study, you know? But in this

We had some Indian devs in a subsidiary for years, and that absolutely tracks. Cross-cultural communication is an actual field of study, you know? But in this case, with the unwillingness to say "no", it's a killer. We ended up cutting them loose because even though they were cheaper per hour than US-based resources, we couldn't make the progress we needed to make. One US dev because 3, and that became a whole team, and that's how we decided to continue.