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Wait until you find out the work experience of people consultancies send out to clients. It's often one experienced person with a bunch of grunts pumping out "w
by azemetre 2y ago
Wait until you find out the work experience of people consultancies send out to clients. It's often one experienced person with a bunch of grunts pumping out "work."
In a previous life I worked for a health insurance company that paid a million dollars to the Boston Consultancy Group on if we should use agile or not for development. The best part was seeing the half dozen or so people in our offices working so diligently to argue for something we were already doing, even better when speaking to these consultants they had zero experience programming or developing software.
I often wonder what it takes to win these contracts over McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte; because it sure feels like it's not aptitude that's the defining quality but more quasi-legal corruption.
- mrgoldenbrown 2y agoIME it's not like McKinsey and friends are necessarily sending highly qualified people either. So it wouldn't take much to "beat" them on merit. It's frustrating to watch them get paid so much to recommend the thing we already recommended in house, except their version is missing all the hard parts because they never bothered to check whether the required infrastructure exists or can even be legally installed at the project site.
- bbor 2y agoMcKinsey is about as close as it gets to cartoon supervillains in real life. And they must know it, right? Maybe they hide their role from the rank n’ file, but I doubt it. Truly a useless industry, and a significant symptom of our corporatist malaise. The amount of money the government spends on useless contractors… shudders
- cangeroo 2y agoMaybe it's a way to funnel government money into an obscure international entity?