logoalt Hacker News

imtringued • yesterday at 8:09 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

His point is that the offshore structure is deeply dysfunctional.

The consulting agency tells you they hired the best senior developers, then hand the project over to a junior developer that doesn't know anything about your project and could be reassigned at any time.


Replies

elevation • yesterday at 2:45 PM

> doesn't know anything about your project

I consulted for a client who cut off an offshore consulting firm after they billed 40 hour for a one line CSS border-color fix change. We were suspicious of billing fraud, but the quality of developers we'd observed wouldn't allow us to rule out hanlon's razor.