I only reply because this guy points his finger at Poland and some of his points are clearly wrong:
- flight to Warsaw from Dublin costs about 200 euro and lasts 3 hours so he can see plenty of developers face to face and go back same day.
- time difference is 1 hour... don't see a big problem here
- don't know what teams he has experience with but in terms of talented developers let's check TopCoder ranking. Poland on 3rd place while UK on 20th...
- he mentions problem with checking references but if team is outsourcing to another countries they should have references in those countries, right?
- flight to Warsaw from Dublin costs about 200 euro and lasts 3 hours so he can see plenty of developers face to face and go back same day.
- time difference is 1 hour... don't see a big problem here
- don't know what teams he has experience with but in terms of talented developers let's check TopCoder ranking. Poland on 3rd place while UK on 20th...
- he mentions problem with checking references but if team is outsourcing to another countries they should have references in those countries, right?