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From the point of view of someone in Europe who has done a lot of work with Indian teams, I’m not surprised by that. The culture gap with India is huge and dif
by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
From the point of view of someone in Europe who has done a lot of work with Indian teams, I’m not surprised by that.
The culture gap with India is huge and difficult to manoeuvre (my own culture and the culture of India are basically on opposite end of the tolerance to conflict scale) and if you work with one of the largest Indian consulting companies you are very likely to end up with very junior developers, high turnover and management which mostly focus on billing you the most they can.
Once you factor all that, you quickly come to a point where India doesn’t look that interesting if you don’t want to commit and open a branch there (apparently a game changer). For us, it’s awkwardly placed between countries a bit more expensive but with a far smaller cultural gap and cheaper place where we would encounter similar difficulties.
- moralestapia 2y agoMy experience as well. Developers from LATAM and South East Asia are much easier to work with.
- pjot 2y agoI never really thought about it being a cultural difference in the way US devs and those offshore work in the day to day. But that may explain much of the disconnect. Curious what your experience is like.
- drewcoo 2y agoIt's not about offshore work differences. It's about every location you have workers having a different culture. And they don't always mesh well. The constantly smiling Americans will seem like idiots to central Europeans. The Indians who answer yes to every question won't be trusted by the American idiots. And so on.
- moralestapia 2y agoChill, read the site guidelines [1]. Make @dang's job easier. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html