I'm surprised it was a cost-based decision as Indian-based teams are already on the lower end of that.
I believe there was some other kind of added value involved, perhaps they hired a more competent team or with a broader skillset.
I believe there was some other kind of added value involved, perhaps they hired a more competent team or with a broader skillset.
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.
Developers from LATAM and South East Asia are much easier to work with.
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.
Make @dang's job easier.
By te way, I love the negative comments about the level of English proficiency in the Vietnamese team in a post riddled with mistakes.
Same company, different oursourcing situation - needed some critical low level (assembler) code written. Outsourced to a different region, the developers understood what was needed and turned things around much faster than expected. A small consultancy instead of one of the body shops.
Interestingly the post mentioned English language as a skill. Wonder how much of a barrier that is for Vietnamese devs?