Imho, too many americans have had sour experiences with offshored workers or H1-Bs working here, etc.
It's the language thing. Oh but they have an IQ of 160?
Well that doesn't matter much when communication is hugely important in conveying & understanding high-level ideas (on all sides).
The worst are suits who can't speak either language (tech & broken-english mumble). Offshore guy mumbles, "Oh we'll mmm hhmmm AJAX mmm hmmm Web 2.0 mmm hmmm screen-scrape data layer API. mmmm hmmm Simple." And the suit goes, "Well, Bob, glad we got that one nicked in the bud!"
It's the language thing. Oh but they have an IQ of 160?
Well that doesn't matter much when communication is hugely important in conveying & understanding high-level ideas (on all sides).
The worst are suits who can't speak either language (tech & broken-english mumble). Offshore guy mumbles, "Oh we'll mmm hhmmm AJAX mmm hmmm Web 2.0 mmm hmmm screen-scrape data layer API. mmmm hmmm Simple." And the suit goes, "Well, Bob, glad we got that one nicked in the bud!"