Pros
Good work life balance Employee benefits Office environments Friendly work culture
Cons
Ah yes, the sacred offshore-onsite dynamic — where the offshore folks are basically treated like AI models with a heartbeat, expected to be online 24x7, fluent in every timezone, and emotionally numb to 3 AM standups titled “urgent brainstorming” that end in “let’s circle back tomorrow.” And let’s talk about those QA directors — the ones who think writing a test plan is a religious ritual, and executing it is a military drill. They walk around with phrases like “be more process-oriented” while not being able to tell a unit test from a toaster. If you don’t know anything about QA? No worries — just move onsite! That’s the fast track, baby. Suddenly you're leading a team of PhDs in India while your biggest technical contribution is… renaming a JIRA ticket. And meetings? Offshore folks attend so many meetings they probably dream in Zoom backgrounds. One meeting to align, another to realign, and a third to reflect on why the first two didn’t align anything. Onsite folks be like: "Can you quickly give a 45-slide deck on why the test case failed in staging?" Offshore reply: "Sir, you removed the staging server yesterday." Let’s be honest — it’s not offshore vs. onsite, it’s just smart vs. noisy, and noise always gets promoted faster.