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by ifwinterco 24 days ago
I'm sure there's some good ones but most are bad.

Not because all Indian devs are bad (this is of course absolutely not true), but most of the good ones are either no longer in India or working in India but for something more prestigious and interesting than an offshoring shop

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Which can be said of any country. Most of the good devs in US are working for the best US comapnies and not for small companies with less budgets.
Yes, but this is a strong argument against Indian offshoring purely for cost reasons if you're a half-decent company in North America or Europe that could attract decent local engineers if you tried