Very lean eng orgs that rely heavily on offshoring. Every software engineer at my work, I know what they do and they're important to our core tasks. But probably 95% of our actual dev is done by offshore project teams, so the eng org itself is very senior/lead heavy and primarily supervises rather than writing a lot of code themselves.
Doesn't it scare you that your actual product is written by someone else? As i am moving away from what is called IC positions in silicon valley, i am increasingly afraid of this. The projects i am passionate about and responsible for are actually developed by other people. And these are people whom I know are at least as good at if not better at the job than me.
What are best practices for offshoring in your estimation?
Does your team work directly with devs or is there an intermediary offshore layer to manage the people actually pushing code? From what I read the variance in quality of offshore engs is huge. I get a lot of connection requests with offshore managers, don't know if they're worth it or you should just hire offshore devs directly and manage them yourselves. Its hard because you don't know the nuances and blindspots of engineers in different countries and cultural issues.
