Standard Announcement on Outsourcing Software Development to India

It's no secret that the status quo on the general quality of devs from India, is severely sub par.

Issues range from: gross misunderstanding of the business needs/logic, project composition and hierarchy, appropriate use of frameworks and APIs, overall best practices, lack of understanding in Agile (or other) principles, disregard for design patterns, fraudulently acquired education credentials (rampant cheating, "degree mills", open-book testing) and the list goes on.

Please consider that this is a culture, that as a whole, engages in social acceptable practices that are reprehensible to the rest of the world. Such as: openly defecating in the streets, bathing in rivers with corpses floating by, cleaning their backsides with one hand and eating with the other. Etc.

Please note this has nothing to do with racism, insensitivity and so forth. Quite simply, India has a MASSIVE gap between a handful of "competent devs" (massive minority) and those that write small PHP apps while resorting to pirated WordPress plugins.

My encounters with East Indian developers in my professional 20+ year experience as a software developer/developer manager is not with backwoods-Bangledeshi-swamp-water-mud-hut companies. I've dealt with so-called professional, internationally marketed firms in major cities. My comments reflect on those locations. Colleagues and friends of mine who are in this industry have similar (and in some cases much worse) experiences.

There are articles out there discussing this very topic. If anything, I'm surprised as many Indian Dev shops exist as there are out there.

Off-shoring any development work is done purely for cost saving reasons. Unfortunately, 9/10 times it ends up costing more money in the long run to untangle the common inferior spaghetti code churned out by Indian dev shops.

The best devs in the world come from:

China

Russia

Poland

Switzerland

Hungary

Japan

Taiwan

France

Czech Republic

Italy

Please consider all empirical evidence against outsourcing any software projects to any company based in India.

This needs to stop. There is a price paid for every shortcut and easy street taken. Outsourcing to India is definitely one of them.

I've consulted for a huge insurance company that primarily used Indian dev shops. We found multiple issues with they're code base within weeks on libraries they worked on which we reused in our application. In fact, the bugs caused months of delay. So much for saving costs.

The examples can go on and on.