Top developer outsources self

[realityhack]

From the Beeb article:

"Evidence even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area. All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about $50,000 (£31,270) annually."

Nice.

[Doggy Styles]

I wouldn't employ him. He's a massive security risk. What he did isn't technically clever enough to employ him like you would some hackers.

Was he prosecuted?

[mos]

And what is it with cat videos?

Its a psychopathic cat ... quite funny cartoon really

[redgiant]

9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos

11:30 a.m. – Take lunch

1:00 p.m. – Ebay time

2:00-ish p.m – Facebook updates, LinkedIn

4:30 p.m. – End-of-day update e-mail to management

5:00 p.m. – Go home

So is that a typical day of one of you home working developers then? And what is it with cat videos?

[vetran]

Respect!

[Mich the Tester]

Why the **** wouldn't you put him in charge? He's clearly smart and able to recruit and manage offshore teams, just what the modern IT dept is crying out for.

Indeed, but he's clearly a non-conformist; not the sort of person many corporations hire or retain. He broke company policies, he didn't abide by the rules, he was naughty. The fact the got the work done effectively and could probably do even more valuable work is completely irrelevant and of no consequence in any hiring and firing decision.

[d000hg]

Brilliant ... so was that going on undetected for several years?

So how come that the quality of the outsourced development was so high? it is a lesson to learn about how to outsource.

There are good developers out there if you can find them... and a developer would be far more able to figure out which are the good ones than a management-consultancy discussion.

They say they fired him, but I hope they kept the outsourced team who were clearly better than their own people.

[doodab]

Why the **** wouldn't you put him in charge? He's clearly smart and able to recruit and manage offshore teams, just what the modern IT dept is crying out for.

[mos]

Brilliant ... so was that going on undetected for several years?

So how come that the quality of the outsourced development was so high? it is a lesson to learn about how to outsource.

[Scrag Meister]

Fair play, I'm sure we all wish we could have pulled this one off.

Sounds like he may have been worth employing cos of his initiative.

[Mich the Tester]

The VPN traffic logs showed a regular series of logins to the company's main server from Shenyang, China, using the credentials of the firm's top programmer, "Bob".

[mudskipper]

The VPN traffic logs showed a regular series of logins to the company's main server from Shenyang, China, using the credentials of the firm's top programmer, "Bob".

[d000hg]

Security audit finds dev OUTSOURCED his JOB to China ? The Register