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About 20-15 years ago we found offshoring teams had terrible communication and software skills. In the past 7-5 years the communication and techskills for a li

• Consultant32452 5y ago
  The last mega-corp I worked for had this program where they primarily hired offshore workers, and they offered the really good ones the chance to move to the US on work visas. I made friends with one of them and he told me there is rampant fraud on the offshore teams. There's 2-3 people doing all the work, and they let other people claim it, because that's just the culture somehow. The off-shore managers are in on it and sometimes are one of the few doing the work. He claimed this was the norm at multiple big-name contracting firms he'd worked for. I have no way of confirm any of this obviously, but it did offer an explanation for some of the experiences I had.
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  • mariuolo 5y ago
    > There's 2-3 people doing all the work, and they let other people claim it, because that's just the culture somehow. Could it be a question of caste hierarchy if in India?
• Karupan 5y ago
  > offshore resource In these times when “master” is renamed to “main”, I still find it strange that calling human beings “resources” is tolerated in the industry.
  • parineum 5y ago
    That could easily be a reference to a team. Honestly, when outsourcing, you really don't know who or how many people are doing the work (and that's kinda the point).
  • mushyhammer 5y ago