Because they like crappy, over complicated code that has to be re-written to actually work. The money saved up front comes back in code refactoring and not to mention the loss of customers once they have to talk to Rajesh over the phone for support.
The global talent pool is a farce. The Indian we actually hire here have sent word back on how much they get paid and salaries are rising quickly in India. Watch for a reversal.
Back in the late 80's one of my software applications contractors was half Indian and half US and because he was Indian he could bring some of his "cousins" to work on a project.
He had 26 "cousins" living in 6 motel rooms in La Crosse WI, and hacking code for one of the first Oracle total integration systems, GL, payroll, payables, receivables the entire accounting system and they were damned good and very smart.
This was at the beginning of the India IT import system including TaTa and the rest.
I don't know what the Indians were paid, and since my project was delivered on time and under budget, the client was thrilled, I got a bonus and 100 plus IT geeks that had previously strutted and pranced around the replaced IBM mainframes were leaving LaCrosse for other places to slump and pout.
But the open systems revolution had begun, and not even IBM could stop it.
The initial onslaught of Indians were the cream of the crop and high talent was available at relatively low prices.
Over time, that changed and India is now just another source of technical talent with bad breath and high pitched accents.
Crappy software is absolutely correct. In the late 90s leading up to Y2K the company I worked for sent our code offshore to India for Y2K problem ID and solutions. We told the corporate weasels that they would be better off letting us do it because we knew the systems and knew how they had to work. The invested at least 10 mil and a year of getting back crappy code that took twice as long to debug and fix as it would have if we had done it ourselves. After a year they gave up, cancelled the project and who ended up doing it? Why of course, those of us who told them not to send it to India in the first place.
I now teach app development and I can tell you that there are few really talented students from that area of the world. The majority of them can make it work if they have numerous examples, work together or somehow obtain the solution but otherwise have no intellectual curiosity or drive to analyze a problem or set of requirements and then formulate a reasonable solution. As a group, they are most likely to be caught collaborating on what is supposed to be an individual assignment and/or outright cheat.
It seems the current crop of corporate weasels haven’t learned the lessons from almost 20 years ago.