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The problem here is that considering how these consulting companies are structured, how they work and their size, the capability to hire good developers imho is
by drtse4 15y ago
The problem here is that considering how these consulting companies are structured, how they work and their size, the capability to hire good developers imho is not even there.
Also, are companies like Accenture chosen by their clients for the incredible quality of their work? I'm also from Italy, so i could have observed something peculiar to this market, but the clients of those big consulting corps (usually from the financial sector or similar) just pick one of the biggest players as a "safe" bet, technical considerations are not part of the decision.
Which big player do they choose and why? I remember a discussion here on HN about "golf course software", that could be the methodology.
- gaius 15y agoClient pay for predictably mediocre. It's a scale: pay $X and get Y% probability of the project being done by D date. Of course they don't even get that; in practice, Accenture are as unpredictable as any large-scale software development effort. So rather than mediocre yet safe, you get mediocre, and late, and over budget. LOLZ on you! Or on your poor shareholders/taxpayers more like.
- tsotha 15y agoWhen I dealt with Accenture (back when they were Anderson Consulting), they were quite predictable - always late, always over budget, and always producing an unmaintainable mess. The developers were good or bad in about the same percentages as other companies, but the management structure was designed to suck money out of the client. Work product was secondary (or, whatever) and it showed.