> the time zones are killer, and this can't be ignored

100% agree, especially when there is minimal overlap during normal office hours. I was managing a dev team in India from the US and it was a real challenge. The company ended up moving team to the US, relocating most of my team. Despite all the people being the same, management became much easier.

Since then I've done US and EU, and EU and IN, and those have all worked fine because we had sufficient overlap during business hours.

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nottorp 7 hours ago | parent [-]

If you needed 8 hour overlap you were micromanaging?

Was that because of the above cultural differences?

	▲	bluGill 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		He didn't need 8 hours, but zero didn't work. The us and india are about 12 hours apart (there are 4 times zones in the us, day light savings time, and india is offset half an hour, but it rounds out to 12 hours for discussion)
	▲	3D30497420 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> If you needed 8 hour overlap you were micromanaging? ...ok. I didn't need 8 hours of overlap. As I mentioned in my first comment, I've also now done US/EU and EU/IN. Both of which have only partial overlap and things have gone well. With US West Coast and India, I was often doing meetings at 7AM and my devs were doing meetings at 9 or 10PM. That was challenging, irrespective of any cultural differences.