As with any large population there's a bell curve, good ones and bad ones at each end. You get what you pay for with programmers, Indian or not. With those out

As with any large population there's a bell curve, good ones and bad ones at each end. You get what you pay for with programmers, Indian or not. With those out of the way, there is one thing I've noticed: There tends to be a culture that they always immediately say "Yes" to any request, even if they have absolutely no idea where to begin. This is not the "I haven't built this exact thing before, but I have built two things that are similar and should be able to hook them together and change behaviour" <-- that thing is part of normal programming life. No, this is more like "I have absolutely no idea if the technology stack can even DO what you're asking, if it's the correct choice, or if I am even remotely skilled enough to implement this" ... just immediately say "YES" and head over to stack overflow to ask questions. I have a good friend who is a developer from India, and I asked him why this is, he told me that "There's a culture in India that you just say YES to your boss and never ever question him or his methods, the employee just says YES and then does their best to figure it out" With this in mind, I always make sure that when dealing with Indian contractors, at the point of where I would normally go over the high level implementations with contractors I make an effort to dig a bit deeper, just to make sure there's good understanding and no miscommunication. Overall experience has been good now that I know the cultural gotchas. EDIT: One other bit of advice my father gave me "Pay peanuts, get monkeys" .. this sums up most of the problems with code I see :)