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.
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.