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> You get what you pay for.

It is more than that - it takes an incredible amount of time and effort to setup a good offshore team.

It took my current company over a decade to get to a point where we can consistently get ~10% lower project costs.

That’s a decade of failed and delayed projects! And we weren’t trying to go with the cheapest devs.

When your dev spend is a few hundred million or more a year this makes sense.

However, many many smaller companies have been burned. A couple of failed projects can sink these smaller companies.




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