[whateveracct]

my CEO/cofounder is addicted to outsourcing to India. He has eschewed even considering making any first hires in the US because he would rather hire a boutique contractor from an India firm. I think this boils down to him seeing engineers as fungible legos, so the huge pay difference is just a discount on certain bricks.

it's made worse by the fact that a founding team member left the project, so now he is wanting to hire yet another contractor so we don't "fall behind."

i've done my part to explain the mythical man month to him but it's fallen on deaf ears. you'd think the founding engineer of the company would be considered the expert in software project management, but apparently having an MBA trumps that.

[goatinaboat]

you'd think the founding engineer of the company would be considered the expert in software project management

He doesn’t really see you as a co-founder is why. To him you are just Lego too. You should reevaluate your relationship with him and with the company.

[rootsudo]

That's a really sad, but accurate assessment of that situation.

[whateveracct]

yeah that's my sense too, but it's a hard thing to reckon with given that my vested stake is so large already, and the company is well beyond MVP as well.