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The big 3 get hired to protect managers. Hire a smaller consulting firm and the project goes sideways you both get fired. Hire a big firm and it goes sideways they get fired - until the next project.

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Or: you both get fired but they hire you because of all the money they made anyway.

Sounds like the contracts are not written correctly then.

Yup, sort of the whole point. There's a lot of cost plus contracts floating around here, which is a terrible incentive.

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