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My last full-time job in a corporation involved managing many EPAM developers and after working with offshore developers on multiple continents I can tell you t
by stephenhuey 6y ago
My last full-time job in a corporation involved managing many EPAM developers and after working with offshore developers on multiple continents I can tell you they were the strongest technically that I had encountered. I had never heard of EPAM until my boss told me we were bringing them on board to help us scale our app dev efforts! We had IT consultants from a Big 4 firm who felt more like the model of hire undergrads and teach them a few technical things to throw jargon around in front of the client. I realize in both cases it can be luck of the draw but I feel like firms such as EPAM are focused on bringing serious technical skills and experience to the table rather than a general consultant demeanor.
- jmchuster 6y agoBig shops will be sending their cheapest (aka youngest) consultants to all their small clients, or at least until they complain enough about the quality of work that they send someone more senior along to right things. That's what allows other smaller consultancy shops to compete, because such clients would be considered our "big" clients that we send our best people to. You're just waiting for that moment where they get fed up with a big shop and open it up for a new contract, and you can swoop in and pick up a new client.