Hello everybody I'm a software developer we're going to talk about one of the oldest and most

established Outsource mobile development destinations in the world India has been in the outsourcing
game for a long time they're the original big outsourcing software development destination of the world
it started years and years ago mostly with call centers but now they're doing tons of software
development so that's what we're going to talk about today.

India is a much-maligned destination all the train wreck jokes about offshore disasters are usually
directed towards India some of that as well to serve not all of it is I love India personally I lived in India
for some time and I used to send a lot of work there and have spent a lot of time there but now I don't
so much so let's jump into the pros and cons of outsourcing to India

Pros and cons of outsource mobile development to India

Pros of outsource mobile development to India
First the Outsourcing mobile development pros, India has pretty good prices it's fluctuated over the
years sometimes the prices go up sometimes down but one thing is for sure is that there's a lot of
people in India and there's IT grads coming out of really good schools all the time so there is a massive
supply and it's more than enough to meet the massive demand of outsource mobile development clients
so that keeps prices down that's one of the great things about India.

There also a lot of experienced software developers in India it's been going on for a long time there are
mature managers that have 10 years more of experience they're really good schools it's a fairly well
developed educational infrastructure and there's a lot of companies that have been doing this for a long
time lots of experience.

another advantage is that people in India would generally speak English especially those who've been
through university and are in the IMT IT world so that language barrier still exists and we'll talk about
that but they do speak English in India culturally it's a mixed bag they do understand American culture
pretty well Americans and Indians tend to tend to get along business-wise but that can also be
misleading because there's some areas where there's misunderstandings and we'll talk about that.

Cons of Outsource mobile development to India

the cons of outsourcing mobile development these sort of relate to the prose and interesting ways as
you're going to see the price is are cheap in India because there's so much supply to so many mobile
developers this is also a con it leads to massive attrition this is the number one problem in India today
and by attrition we're talking about mobile developers who are at a apps development company who
leave that company for another mobile development company that's attrition another problem is that
even though we said there's a lot of experienced managers in India.

there's also a billion people over there and they're hard to find so you have thousands and millions of
experienced managers but tens and hundreds of millions of juniors so it's kind of hard to get ahold of
those senior managers and especially with all the attrition everybody's jumping around it becomes even
harder and that's a major disadvantage and a struggle with India.

another con is the culture and the language we talked about how they do speak English and that's very
handy they speak it with a pretty good accent and when you get on the phone the first time you're
speaking English and they're fluent this can be very misleading the way that Indian people speak English
is they use the same words we understand exactly what they said but there's a lot of idiom and there's a
lot of different meanings and sometimes they'll say something and you have 100% comprehension of
the words but you don't really know what they meant and the reverse.

another con is just the general quality a lot of people say Oh Indian mobile developers are no good and
that's really unfair I know some incredibly great Indian mobile developers the reason we see so many
quality problems is because while there is great quality on average there's too many juniors there's too
much attrition and there's too many issues for we for us to look at that as a really high quality
destination as far as traveling to India it can be pretty rough it's a long trip by any standards so that is
one disadvantage that it's pretty far away timewise and travel wise so those are the main cons.

let's talk about some of the culture first of all India is a huge place and it is very diverse if you go to the
north of India it's going to be really different from the south people speak different languages and India
is a complicated place so these are wild generalizations but let's go for it one thing that Americans aren't
used to is that Indians tend to start working later in the morning though they're rolling into work at
10:00 or 11:00 and sometimes American clients get really frustrated with this but keep in mind that they
also tend to work late so a lot of Indian developers will come in late in the morning but they're staying
till 7:00 or 8:00 at night or even 9:00 at night that can take a little bit of an adjustment.

and then there's the sort of read allegation concept we see this a lot in India where you're talking to
one developer and they say I'm going to take care of this problem for you an American interprets that is
thinking that person will take care of it for you in India sometimes they mean I'm going to see that it
takes place.

and then there's the kind of big face-saving yes-no culture that happens all around Asia there's lots of
this in India so bottom line is that India does have some great resources some great software
development companies and some great software developers but with a billion people and high attrition
and all these cultural and language barriers that we see we find that it can be a very frustrating
destination there's a few shops that we really like and we still send work there but for the most part we
steer clients elsewhere.