[bazza451]

As an ex-consultant I would never hire a consultancy to do technical work or want to work there again now I’ve seen behind the curtain.

The main issue is resourcing is pretty much ALWAYS awful as their goals (maximum resource billing) don’t align with yours…people go on about it, but the term body shop is pretty apt.

I was in a leadership position and its pretty standard operating procedure for you to ask for a senior Java developer and be told you’re getting a junior Python test engineer just because it’s whoever is sitting around twiddling their thumbs (…and that’s from an internal perspective, if you’re the client you’ll just get lied to about their skills)

This basically leads to teams being comprised mostly of people who have absolutely no clue what they are doing - Is no wonder that a lot of the projects either fail, go over budget or have severe performance/security issues…and as a bonus you’ll get charged per day for a person as much as a permanent FAANG employee costs.

Worst offender I saw in my time doing it was Sapient, they seem to just bring anyone off the street, pure incompetence.

[jorblumesea]

This is true for almost every consultancy. Avanade, Tata, Infosys.