At my employer, there are various consulting/contracting companies we’ve used. Some made it easy to convert those workers we wanted to hire as full time team me

At my employer, there are various consulting/contracting companies we’ve used. Some made it easy to convert those workers we wanted to hire as full time team members, some made it hard — or virtually impossible. We generally don’t work any more with the contracting/consulting companies that make it hard. We’ve dealt with plenty of overseas contracting companies. The horror stories are too numerous to go into, but suffice it to say that there is no amount of cost savings that could make up for the negative externalities they have caused. Sure, the outsourcing companies will demo well. Everyone demos well. But once they’ve hooked you, they will replace the people who did the demo. Odds are, they will lose those people in a couple of months, even if they don’t replace them on their own. And thus begins the slide into a new kind of hell.