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If they're leading on prospective clients by indicating that you will always have a supervisor or managerial level role in the actual projects, and you're not going to be there at all, then it's effectively misrepresentation / borderline fraud and 100% unethical.

Furthermore this kind of activity exacerbates the distrust between employers and prospective employees and makes the interview process even worse in the future for all of us.

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Yes, please don't misunderstand, I agree with you on both points, with regard to both outsourcing and full-time employees.

And everyone on this thread is basically saying the same thing.

My point about the way most dev shops currently do business is that there's a grey area where there's not a bright clear line. As a manager who hired these dev shops, and as someone with a boss who wanted me to hire these dev shops, I was forced to deal with this issue every time.

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