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by markus_zhang 1652 days ago
Agreed. And it's actually not an American phenomenon, but a global one (as long as it needs to be listed on US stock market). The model basically is to remove IT functionalities from branches and congregates all IT power (think DBA/DevOps/etc.) to HQ so that you only need to maintain one single big IT department. In the middle of this HQ will also try to replace custom solutions by one single solution that works for all branches/departments. The branches still need to maintain a small IT team but essentially they are just configuration pushers.

Then it outsources to Eastern Europe.