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..btt
Mar 26, 2008
We've used offshore devs for a few projects. They tend to work to spec, no more, no less, and won't tell you when you ask them to do something stupid. They'll just do it. They will write horribly unmaintainable code which I assume is partly because they don't care about somebody else's codebase, partly because that means the next time they modify the software it will take longer and you'll have to pay them more money.

My direct experience has been that they have all been highly knowledgable individuals, but when you just hand them a spec and let them get on with it everything goes to poo poo. I blame my company for this, not the offshore teams.

Also they cost about 1/3 of an onshore dev but take about 3 times longer to do anything, so we generally used them for easy scaling rather than anything else. Until that one time some executive had the bright idea to buy an offshore company. We have since sold them.

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