Your comment comes off as xenophobic. I know it's acceptable in tech circle to talk this way, but not cool.
We don't, when the problem under discussion is endemic to outsourcing firms and has no particular connection to their location. The fact that there are lots of outsourcing firms that are, relative to where the demand for their services is, also offshore is completely beside the point.
Raising that irrelevancy is the problem.
Yes, it does.
If the “offshore” weren't in it, it would be just as accurate and not xenophobic.
I have been in companies where we'd outsourced to firms in India. The experience was not good for us, at all. The arm of the company that set up this arrangement, it went under. The offshore firm did not deliver.
I realized what seems to be a cultural thing with folks I'd worked with from offshore firms. They would nearly always exude absolute confidence in their ability to deliver what you'd requested from them, no matter how complex the task.
"Oh yes. Sure. No problem. We will get that done for you. Absolutely, yes. No problem."
You never heard humility in the sense of, "well, I/we aren't experts in _________ but we'll research and get back to you." It was always confidence, to the extreme.
I wonder why this is?
The reality ended up being entirely different. Many times, they had no effin clue. These were with some very big-name offshoring firms.
The flip side to that same coin… the folks from those firms that were genuinely skilled… they weren't in India. They got brought over on visas and were working in the US.
Because they were crooks, same as companies promising to protect your privacy and then selling your data. You will not hear anyone saying American tech companies are fraud.