This was my exact same experience where I used to work, where large parts of the company's code base maintenance was moved to India. It decayed really quickly.

This was my exact same experience where I used to work, where large parts of the company's code base maintenance was moved to India. It decayed really quickly. The culture we were met with was tragic to say the least. The only thing that mattered to the Indian managers were error reports and statistics, to the point where I was confronted for reporting an error without consulting with them directly first, so they could spoof the numbers... And some of the developers I had to interface with literally needed to be told, character by character, what to do to fix even the most basic stuff. And yes, on the other hand, we had Indian colleagues integrated locally which were some of the best people around. Outsourcing is hard. You will likely not get any top talent unless you really know how to work the market, and then it will likely not be particularly cheap.