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Bullshit. I've worked as a consultant in Germany for 13 years, and pretty much every large project has consultants in it, often half the developers are consult
by brazzy 9y ago
Bullshit.
I've worked as a consultant in Germany for 13 years, and pretty much every large project has consultants in it, often half the developers are consultants. IBM, T-Systems, Capgemini and accenture each have around 5000 people doing software consulting, and there'S hundreds if not thousands of smaller consultancies.
- baud147258 9y agoIt's the same thing in France, but it seems that the consultant/employee change from company to company. Currently I'm working for Alten, which has 28000 employee, but I don't know how many work in IT.
- Sharlin 9y agoBut those consultants are still regular employees of the consulting company, right They’re not independent contractors. I guess a client company can say that they don’t want person X in their project anymore but that doesn’t mean X is going to lose their job.
- brazzy 9y agoThere are many independant contractors as well.
- 1ris 9y agoThe thing is consultants are not "regular jobs". Developing with only consultants is very unusual, expensive, and consultants are the minority everywhere i have ever looked. Employers are not declaring employees to be consultants to safe money or to be able to fire them more easily. (At last on a large scale.)