Everything through the account manager, nobody raises concerns, people disappear mid-sprint. It is not culture. Here is the org chart, the appraisal chain and the utilisation maths behind large-consultancy offshore behaviour, and what an in-house engineer can actually do about it.
Why Offshore Development Quality Is So Bad (It’s the Contract)
Bad offshore code is a rational output of fixed-bid contracts, pyramid staffing and 24-hour question latency, not of nationality. What the attrition and distributed-team research actually shows, and the seven things an engineering manager can change.