[iamsb]

Here is an anecdote which might help you understand why.

One of my classmates joined infy out of college. His job for the first one year was - email the list of files changed in the day to the client. This friend was called newton in the college, one of the smartest person around. And he was doing one of the most boring job. Client was paying more than 3000 USD per month for this. Of course he automated the work on second day, used time to study for CAT and left to enroll in IIMA.

Not implying that there isnt anything good with these big companies, but there are lot of such stories. This particular one sounds more like defrauding the client more than anything else to be honest.

[vmurthy]

> used time to study for CAT and left to enroll in IIMA.

For those of you who don't know about CAT: think GMAT but with 200000 people appearing for it at the same time-frame (maybe a 15 day window)

IIMA - Harvard equivalent in India. Only about 400 people out of 200000 make it to IIMA.

[r_singh]

If you consider overcharging (perceivably) to be akin to defrauding, then a lot more doctors, pharmacy cos. and lawyers are defrauding clients than outsourcing cos. Even though the repercussions of them defrauding their clients is a lot higher. Also it's a fraud because of the oaths they take, of which outsourcing cos. are obliged to take none.

[TeMPOraL]

Given how it's such a common thing that it doesn't surprise anyone on the engineering side of things, I'd expect that the corporate management would've wised up to this already. This makes me wonder if both sides of the deal are in on it, and are together extracting money from the larger corporate entity.