Any time I start to feel that Impostor Syndrome creeping in, I need to remind myself that there's someone who's working at Accenture probably earning 2x or 3x what I am, who gets to fuck up big not once but _twice_ doing the same wrong thing.
So the Accenture engineer probably gets paid a lot less than you.
Edit: According to Wikipedia, yes:
> In 2015, the company had about 150,000 employees in India,[31] 48,000 in the US,[32] and 50,000 in the Philippines.[33]
Edit2: s/outsource/offshore, thanks. What I intended was: companies hire Accenture to outsource their development work to third-world countries.
I’ve crossed paths with these “consulting” types twice in my career. I don’t mean to generalize, but these so called “engineers” didn’t understand source control or versioning, didn’t understand basic programming concepts, and lacked any sort of communication skills.
It seemed like you were working with someone who watched a couple YouTube videos (and no more than a couple videos) on some framework, with no former programming, design, or critical thinking skills, and they were now given a job title.
Pedantic: Accenture assigning work to their employees in India or the Philippines is not "outsourcing." The work was outsourced when it was handed off from the client paying the bills to Accenture, regardless of where the Accenture employees are located. By definition, Accenture cannot outsource work to their own employees.
"Offshoring" is what Accenture does by having the work done by their employees in lower-cost regions.
Given that roughly 1/3 of Accenture employees are in the US, is there any evidence for you to believe that this was someone outside the US?
You won't be able to find a single american software engineer in Accenture, because of work conditions and wages, all engineers are foreigners on visas. The only americans there are salesmen and admin staff.
That is false.
You do know that legally Accenture has to go above market wages in that locale for H1B workers?
1. How much of that split is between engineers and non engineers?
2. Outside the US can also imply other high cost regions like London.
All I am asking is evidence this was a low paid non-US engineer that caused this not assumptions rooted in bigotry.
US contractor labor rates are typically below market, and typically auditable as GSA labor rates (T&M).
It’s possible there was “outsourcing” to some lower-income area in the US. Most large firms setup large dev factories in the Midwest/south-Midwest.
Although I would still guess that for reasons other than being offshore, they are earning market or less (or overworked to reduce any higher comp to lower effective hourly rates).
A developer in the U.S. has far better employment options.
It can be hard to do the real important security stuff when burdened by the administrative security and audit requirements requisite with government work.
A lot of smart people leave in frustration.