[pikaynu]

I like the key attributes part. The engineers are paid by the hour, so they are incentivised to have the project running for as long as possible.

I don't think it's cheap to get an offshore team to do because the engineers might be cheap but the whole team + mgmt + reviewers are expensive. I have heard stories (from a person who did work in such environments) that the managers would charge a ton and do nothing basically. The work was handled by engineers and was reviewed by offshore people. Not sure what the managers were managing.

There are 2 advantages of an offshore team, especially India,

- Round the clock work

- Contractors can be hired for a few months and don't cost as much in terms of benefits that the company needs to provide to full time employees. So when you know work is going to pour in for 2 quarters, hire a bunch of a contractors. That way you don't have to pay for the equivalent on-site staff all year.

But obviously, this only shows up in quarterly financials and it's hard to judge the quality of the product over multiple years and iterations which is abused.