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Things like that rely on a small percentage of competent developers and an army of padding to get more bodies on seats.

And the problem is, the companies hiring them don't seem to care.

Yep. The executives at my employer realized the consultants were "underperforming" and cut their contracts, but this just left the in-house teams stuck with fixing or rewriting the Accenture code, piled on top of their current project work.

> stuck with fixing or rewriting

Yep, can't just throw out this garbage that doesn't work, have to keep because "we paid for it already".

There's a whole industry here in America that re-shores programming contracts. They know they can't underbid Indian/foreign body shops so they just wait a few months and call back the companies who went with cheaper programmers. If the company is still around it's generally a complete re-write.

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