[PierreRochard]

When I worked at Deloitte they made a similar decision to outsource to India instead of training staff to learn Python and automate the time consuming, low value work. That's when I decided to leave, best move of my career.

[alexandrerond]

I heard Deloitte and such consulting firms barely reach 1.5 year of retention (as in, in average people leave in that time). So you're best move is also the most common.

[johnward]

I too have heard that those consulting firms "churn and burn" young talent. I'm a consultant at IBM so I don't know if it's actually much different though. I've seen decent turnover in my org.

[SandB0x]

How was the quality of the outsourced work? Did they find an existing software house in India and send them specs a deadlines? Did they hire individuals?

[PierreRochard]

They weren't outsourcing software development work, they were outsourcing the manual task of checking PDFs against XLS files. The quality wasn't the problem, the throughput and cost are. I wrote an app that parsed the PDFs but no manager wanted to learn Python to review the code, so they told me to move on :(

[tomashertus]

This is one example of outsourced work(CSS code) to Asia:

.scanResultsTable th:first-child+th+th+th{padding-right: 30px; text-align: right; width: 35%;}

Don't do it guys, really don't....

[pavanky]

That's not generalizing anything at all.

[gizmodo59]

Its hard to digest this level of logic at a site like HN.