Does mixed teams USA and India actually work?
I see and hear many big tech companies shifting jobs to India. But that entails a lot of collaboration with existing USA teams + handing off big chunks of the existing codebase and infrastructure to India. The question is then is shifting half of a team's scope to a team in India really feasible? Is collaboration possible without waiting a day for back and forth? Do team members burn our faster because of working after hours to catch meetings? TC: 400k
Till they figure out that model doesn't work .
It only works if you have a great leader that has real experience in India and the usa.
Those guys aren’t cheap and if they perform they ended up immigrating outside of India eventually. Keep hiring for cheap and you will pay twice, once for your outsourced team who can’t deliver and then again for your local team to do it on their own afterward.
TCS has been wishing it worked for decades.
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I’ve done this semi-successful as a Europe / India team (I’m on Europe side). We had some overlap of working hours with them for communication. I couldn’t see it happening from US-India very sustainably. Indian colleagues complained this to me when I visited. Yeah sure for the first times India team will try to impress you and be online at 3am or whatever. But it’s not sustainable & they shouldn’t be put into that situation. Unless you can work completely asynchronously I don’t think it will work in the long term.
It works but the working hour gets distorted, so it's good for companies, where doesn't have alot of work pressure.
Your life becomes hell. You work during normal hours and later at night or early morning, just to sync with India team.
There is literally no good time to meet between those time zones. It’s very bad for collaboration
Comes at the cost of people sacrificing their evenings and getting burnt out
Works in my team. Or sorta. They work late at night, I have to wake up early. That's the only sacrifice we need to make.
Do you share product work or do you mostly have separated work scopes?
We share everything. Depends entirely on who has more context and how quickly we want project delivered
It is easier to just do all the work yourself instead of these collaborations 12 hours away to people you hired for cheap. Most successful migration I have seen are entire module off shored and no longer handled by US. They have to cover their own asses instead of keep relying on these overnight hand holding.
True. Usually and up waiting weeks for stuff that could have been done in a few days by yourself.