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> They no doubt billed the customer ten times what they were paying the employee while claiming cost savings.

You forgot the part about how the engineer is very aware of this hourly arrangement and feels their job security depends on their ability to get work done in less time, and so they they take tons of shortcuts and pile up technical debt like crazy.

Then the other engineer has to make changes through that technical debt, and he’s also very aware that his time is the company’s money (because the managers remind him of it constantly), so he does 20 hours of work over the weekend and logs it as 4 hours so his boss won’t get mad at him.

And the part about how half of them will lose their visa and have to leave the country if they complain about any of it.

If you’re reading this, and you write software for one company that later becomes the property of another company: QUIT. YOUR. JOB. RIGHT. NOW. Interview at ANY other company, your life can be 10x better in a few weeks, just go.