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> I once lambasted a "tech-team" of a really well known India company for not even knowing how to push codes to git. I patiently explained to the team on how to

> I once lambasted a "tech-team" of a really well known India company for not even knowing how to push codes to git. I patiently explained to the team on how to work collaboratively and to push codes I had to document and then teach over multiple sessions a small team from Infosys how to use Git. 3 weeks, and they all said they understood. Months later nobody could still check code out let alone commit. Then again, I’m not sure I’d be happy with them committing - a lot of their code was actual copy and paste from multiple Stack Overflow questions and answers unmodified into the same file! I didn’t mind that they were being paid double what I was on, but I was mightily angry with the quality of their non-work :(

ShamelessC 6y ago
What's the deal with this? I worked with an Info Sys contractor from India. He was supposed to be the Apache Spark expert we so desperately needed to start being more productive. Not only did he not have expertise on Spark, he could barely type and I had to do everything for him with regard to Git. I suggested it would actually be a better use of his time to brush up on these essential skills than to try being productive without them but he refused. He actually seemed to think that _I_ was the one who needed to work on my skills and that he was doing fine. Did he just lie his way through the interview process? It seriously seemed like he watched some YouTube videos about big data and then decided he was a black belt in the area.
- ashconnor 6y ago
  "Centres of excellence" was something promised to my last company after a round of outsourcing to TCS. They claimed that since TCS is such a large company that they had these COE teams that were domain experts on certain enterprise software. Once the contract was signed we never heard of this again. We were stuck hiring consultants that were almost as bad as TCS.

ShamelessC 6y ago

What's the deal with this? I worked with an Info Sys contractor from India. He was supposed to be the Apache Spark expert we so desperately needed to start being more productive. Not only did he not have expertise on Spark, he could barely type and I had to do everything for him with regard to Git. I suggested it would actually be a better use of his time to brush up on these essential skills than to try being productive without them but he refused. He actually seemed to think that _I_ was the one who needed to work on my skills and that he was doing fine. Did he just lie his way through the interview process? It seriously seemed like he watched some YouTube videos about big data and then decided he was a black belt in the area.

ashconnor 6y ago
"Centres of excellence" was something promised to my last company after a round of outsourcing to TCS. They claimed that since TCS is such a large company that they had these COE teams that were domain experts on certain enterprise software. Once the contract was signed we never heard of this again. We were stuck hiring consultants that were almost as bad as TCS.