In reply to Tai.

Hey Tai,

Syed Balkhi here, founder of AwesomeMotive (WPBeginner, OptinMonster, and tons of other web properties).

I'm a Pakistani American and have employees working in several countries US, UK, Czech Republic, Greece, and Pakistan as well.

From my experience, I've found the professionalism level to be a hit or miss --- but that's true of most South Asian countries (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, etc).

That's why doing proper due diligence and having a good interview process is important. For developer level roles, I highly recommend creating a multi-part test project that increases in difficulty. Only serious professionals will work on the test project, the rest won't even bother to start.

It'll also help to understand the culture as well which will help you weed out most of the "copy-cats". From your comment above, I imagine you've already dealt with a few of those.

Lastly, I'm a firm believer of you get what you pay for. There are some really talented folks in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, etc -- but you have to be realistic about the pay for their respective talent.