It’s from Slashdot.org and sums up my experience with outsourcing to India really well.

>> Hello there!
>> Please refer to your opening on job posting site. I, Rajesh Sharma, would like to apply for the job.[...]My hourly rates are $ 9 USD.
> We all like to pretend this isn’t here and it isn’t happening, but I would say conservatively half the job market has disappeared in 10 years due to this currency/standard of living imbalance.

There’s another reality: it’s really, really hard to manage projects in India. I have tried this for a number of projects, and have learned the following things:

• A day before the deadline, Rajesh will ask for more time
• Halfway through the project, Rajesh will ask for more money
• Rajesh will not give the source, as was agreed
• Rajesh will not use unit tests, or Subversion, as was agreed
• Rajesh cannot be bothered to provide an estimate or a planning
• Rajesh will take on other projects and give priority to those before yours
• Rajesh actually has a day job and just does projects on the side
• Rajesh will tell you he takes a holiday for three weeks, starting tomorrow
• Rajesh has a wedding of a brother, a pregnant sister, a sick father, etc and cannot make the planning
• Rajesh will ask for more money at the end of the project
• Rajesh cannot be reached because he lost his mobile
• Rajesh cannot be reached because his mobile was stolen
• Rajesh cannot be reached because his mobile its battery is empty
• Rajesh cannot be reached because the e-mail server is down
• Rajesh cannot be reached because the internet is down

Each and every project, I have had the above things. There are lots of ways around the above, but the main thing is that it’s very hard.

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