Indian Outsourcing

[Shimano105]

Just had an interview for a project that is being rolled-back to the old one. Why? Because they outsourced the new system and it just doesn't work!

Company are now looking for a dev contractor to re-instate and look after the old system over 6 months.

They are then going to outsource to a different company! Do they ever learn? Where will be the plenty savings?

It's as though the entire industry has been brain-washed into outsourcing, whatever the cost, just don't cave into greedy local people.

[Fred Bloggs]

Its very odd that when IT is the future we get treated like scum and the future of the country outsourced.

No wonder this country is f**ked.

I thought Garlic Bread was "the future"?

[Churchill]

I thought Garlic Bread was "the future"?

I'm not having any of that foreign muck!

[Moscow Mule]

Clientco are seriously considering dumping their development "partners" in Bangalore.

For the amount of money (40% of a UK contractor) they take three times as long to do the project, and need somebody to hold their hand every step of the way.

Even the discalcics among us can work out that's not the best way of doing things.

[lightng]

Clientco are seriously considering dumping their development "partners" in Bangalore.

For the amount of money (40% of a UK contractor) they take three times as long to do the project, and need somebody to hold their hand every step of the way.

Even the discalcics among us can work out that's not the best way of doing things.

This is something that many of the early adopter offshore outsourcers discovered years ago, only to bring it back in-house later on. What you have mentioned added to the internal business friction created turns a well corporation into a sick one.

The only winners, in this country, are the outsourcing "consultants" who slither from one ailing company to another to spread their blight. Just how do they get away with it?

[minestrone]

Seen an offshore team quote 100,000 for a job, when costs hit 10,000,000 clientCo eventually had to bring it back to a UK team who ended up rewriting it.

clentCo since then have moved hundreds of UK jobs out to India. Someone somewhere in that place must be getting tulip loads of backhanders.

[PM-Junkie]

Careful - you'll be accused of being racist.

[Brussels Slumdog]

This is something that many of the early adopter offshore outsourcers discovered years ago, only to bring it back in-house later on. What you have mentioned added to the internal business friction created turns a well corporation into a sick one.

The only winners, in this country, are the outsourcing "consultants" who slither from one ailing company to another to spread their blight. Just how do they get away with it?

Sometimes I win too. The Guys over here in Europe also outsource to India
which means that there is always a demand for an english speaker on the project in order to communicate to the Indians.
(Most Germans can't understand Indian english.)

[lightng]

Sometimes I win too. The Guys over here in Europe also outsource to India
which means that there is always a demand for an english speaker on the project in order to communicate to the Indians.
(Most Germans can't understand Indian english.)

Most English can't understand Indian english.

[Churchill]

Most English can't understand Indian english.

Quite a few don't want to!