My experience with this was it seemed like my Indian guy was on vacation about half the time. Between sick baby, sick father, regular holiday’s, and leave time, it’s a wonder we got anything done. I was very fortunate that we outsourced some ugly stuff that we didn’t have time to do. Problem was it took him about 2 mos. longer than he thought, luckly since it was all nice to have, I didn’t mind.
Heaven help you if a wedding comes up, that’s good for a week or two off, because culturally it’s a big celebration.
So if we do this again, I’ll probably hire more than one, and try to hire a couple from distinct regions/backgrounds if at all possible (our office over there doesn’t mind asking that stuff). Mostly so that you hopefully avoid the possibility of a big festival taking both developers out.
I do think my guy worked on the days he was there, I just think all the time off was what delayed things. You walk away from something for two days plus the weekend, it’s hard to pick up right where you left off.
