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This sounds like a good thing to me, as long as the visa denials are targeting the low-skilled Indian coders. I've been at companies where we contracted with In
by tracer4201 7y ago
This sounds like a good thing to me, as long as the visa denials are targeting the low-skilled Indian coders. I've been at companies where we contracted with Infosys, Larsen and Toubro, and some other Indian shops. We ended up having guys in our office who couldn't speak English, lacked an understanding of basic fundamentals (they've never used source control of any kind or write 2000 line Java methods). Ultimately they delivered garbage and it gave IT a bad rep at the company. But we kept them on the payroll to "cut costs". The contracting companies literally don't give a shit (senior managers and directors would get ball game tickets and other perks under the table), and management on our side would hold these jobs for these incompetent coders instead of qualified local talent.
- sumedh 7y agoHow did they get the project in the first place, did you team in the US vet the Indian team before signing the contract?
- tracer4201 7y agoThere’s usually an on-site account manager who hooks up the team in the US with either an offshore team or Indian coders that work for the contracting company who are already in the US. The interviews are a scam. You interview a person who seems decent but someone else will show up in their place. I had one interview where the person obviously wasn’t the one coding. He couldn’t actually describe what his code does. :) Typically management in these companies aren’t technical folks, and they have no idea what to look for.