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Only if the third party need vouching for. IBM survives in large part because they are a third party you can hire without really putting your own neck out ther
by MattGaiser 3y ago
Only if the third party need vouching for.
IBM survives in large part because they are a third party you can hire without really putting your own neck out there as the biz folks trust them.
At a prior job it was CGI. CGI got a ton of work as when they failed, the lower level people didn't get blamed. Any other vendor would have led to the negative reflection you mentioned.
- dijit 3y agoDepends, my CFO got a lot of flak for choosing to use PwC when it turned out they couldn't deliver. PwC was seen by him to be the safe choice because they were so large and essentially industry standard. He got flak because he didn't do appropriate due diligence. That was his job, so...
- pas 3y agoand, did it materially change his career advancement, promotion, labor market prospects, etc?
- dijit 3y agoYes
- whyagaintango 3y agoPerhaps an exception. 99% this does not happen.
- dijit 3y agocould also be that we dont talk about it when it happens
- MattGaiser 3y agoI don't want to jump on a man's career, but that is a step in a more competitive direction.
- cvalka 3y agoIf a CFO chooses PwC, 98% of the time they should be fired.