How to Hire an Offshore Software Development Team
Here is something nobody in the industry likes to say out loud. Most offshore engagements that fail do not fail because of bad code. They fail because the hiring decision was made badly from the start. The conversation usually begins with the budget. Someone on the leadership team realizes that engineering talent in the US or UK costs three to four times what it costs in India or Eastern Europe, and suddenly custom offshore software development services sound like an obvious move. And it can be. But not the way most companies approach it. Why the “Just Find Someone Cheaper” Approach Backfires Spend enough time talking to founders and CTOs who have been through a bad offshore experience and you start hearing the same story with different company names. They found an agency that quoted a reasonable price, had a nice website, showed them a portfolio, and seemed responsive during the sales process. Three months in, the original developers had been swapped out. Nobody told them. The code qu...