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I have a difficult time understanding how Accenture is still in business but your scenario makes sense. Having worked a large (billion dollar scale) project wi

I have a difficult time understanding how Accenture is still in business but your scenario makes sense. Having worked a large (billion dollar scale) project with Accenture, I have seen what a mixed bag they can be. They brought on some absolute rock-star developers and some who probably did more harm to the project than good but none of them had skills that weren't available with domestic talent. I suppose the shackles of H1B visas helped to keep labor costs down.

polotics 10y ago
Yep. This is my experience also with Wipro: one very highly skilled consultant covering for five to ten let's say much more tepid bodies. This racket works well as long as no-one is looking close also middle-managers like to show off roomfulls of people under their notional command.
- exelius 10y ago
  In the business we call this "leverage". The whole business is a pyramid of lower skilled workers billing high rates while the "talent" works at a loss and does all of the actual work. You drum out the ones who can't hack it after a year or two and replace them with fresh grads, and you promote and pay the good ones to keep up the charade. And you're spot on about the middle manager thing. That way they can say "I was over 4 teams with 75 heads so I'm ready to be a VP!" when really all they did was approve expense reports and head-nod to everything I told them. Of course, making sure that middle manager gets promoted is also part of the job -- when he gets promoted, he gets a bigger budget. :)