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I do mostly JVM and .NET based development nowadays, in consulting projects.

Sometimes I wish to be part of a C or C++ based project, then I try to imagine how the quality of our offshore guys would map to those languages and realize how lucky I am not to be part of such projects.

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Don't you do something wrong, when you consult the company to use (more) offshore guys? I thought that a company is best led, when developers share their knowledge cooperatively and ask their managers to outsource unimportant time-consuming things like api-/file-/conversions, legacy code support, CSVs …

(Disclaimer: Don't get my tone wrong please, I'm asking not suggesting, thus I respect your experience.)

That's what is supposed to happen but the MBA asshats use it purely for cost cutting...

Most consulting projects in Fortune 500 companies end up with outsourcing the whole project department to the consulting company, in the cases where IT is not the main business.

Oh, I didn't know that it's so extreme.. thanks for reporting back, I appreciate it :)

Yeah very good point. Our offshore guys can't even get c# right :)

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