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Article #623515Re: Hell is ... ?
From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 20:14
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 20:14
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On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 3:45:46 PM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote: > IME they propose to use people with a lot of experience who will split > their time and may do little or nothing on YOUR project. Then they bring in > inexperienced, low-level people to actually do the work. +1 Yes. The contractors wow you in the solicitation phase with some really talented whiz-bang people. As you said, after they get the project, you never see the sharp people again, and instead deal with kids right out of school with zero experience and sometimes very little training, too. The old Big Eight* firms would send us kids with degrees in English or other non-related subjects and give them a whirlwind class in COBOL and set them loose. Yet high management would worship them because they were "Big Eight". * I believe now it is the Big Four.
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