When I posted a simple task on Upwork recently (related to AWS server configuration), I got 100s of requests, mostly from Indians. Now the problems are
1) I'm looking for a freelancer, not an agency. Most of them are pitching on behalf of their own agency, and we will never know who is actually doing the work. (They might even outsource it) [This is the worst part]
2) Some of them won't even read the work description properly, and so we need to spend a lot of time filtering the requests.
I got confused and skeptical about their capabilities because of all these and finally hired a freelancer from Europe.
But I've seen amazingly talented freelancers from India as well. It's just that, filtering through 100s of requests is painful.