In my experience the talent we've received from overseas big consultancies has been rough and awful. In contrast with talent that hire exclusively in from the UK and EU has been pretty good.
I understand this is highly subjective but I have seen the same story with at least 6 consultancies, two of which tried to rectify by cycling the teams before our company took legal action. We ran into the same issues where there was a huge language barrier, a different way of working, unwillingness to learn or just complete lack of pride in work, causing lots of hand holding and wasted time.
When you engage with a team that know what they're doing it's night and day and a joy. I think too many companies just don't know what to look out for to understand they're getting a bad deal.
Yes, I've seen those same problems. It's not so much that good engineers don't exist overseas, it's that the communication and legal barriers facilitate fraud and the channels get flooded with hustlers.
I've only seen one outsourcing shop that could make things work, and it was a small owner-operated operation where the guy who ran it kept flying back and forth and took a personal role in hiring, management, and communication. It was impressive to see but wouldn't scale.
It's going to be interesting to see if companies that facilitate US companies direct hiring of foreigners will change this or if the problems will persist.
If anything I would think it would be harder to outsource manufacturing than software engineering, more communication and real world problems to sort out in addition to legal, cultural and communication issues.
I understand this is highly subjective but I have seen the same story with at least 6 consultancies, two of which tried to rectify by cycling the teams before our company took legal action. We ran into the same issues where there was a huge language barrier, a different way of working, unwillingness to learn or just complete lack of pride in work, causing lots of hand holding and wasted time.
When you engage with a team that know what they're doing it's night and day and a joy. I think too many companies just don't know what to look out for to understand they're getting a bad deal.