> is IT outsource/consulting pie so large to feed all these companies? Oh darn well it is (I worked at one of those consulting companies long time ago). Many p

> is IT outsource/consulting pie so large to feed all these companies? Oh darn well it is (I worked at one of those consulting companies long time ago). Many people don't realize how much of the software is written by those companies. I personally worked onsite and offsite for two FAANG companies, one health insurance, and one telecom company. I myself was amazed how often projects were pretty critical to their operations, while I was technically not their employee. In case of FAANG companies we signed a paper agreeing we will not publicly say we did anything for them. I know friends who work the same way for major US banks, credit agencies, energy and retail companies. I have hard time imagining a big company that doesn't buy IT outsourcing (probably government agencies, like military, space, but I'm not sure about their suppliers).