[Cthulhu_]

Things like that rely on a small percentage of competent developers and an army of padding to get more bodies on seats.

And the problem is, the companies hiring them don't seem to care.

[bmj]

Yep. The executives at my employer realized the consultants were "underperforming" and cut their contracts, but this just left the in-house teams stuck with fixing or rewriting the Accenture code, piled on top of their current project work.

[commandlinefan]

> stuck with fixing or rewriting

Yep, can't just throw out this garbage that doesn't work, have to keep because "we paid for it already".

[908B64B197]

There's a whole industry here in America that re-shores programming contracts. They know they can't underbid Indian/foreign body shops so they just wait a few months and call back the companies who went with cheaper programmers. If the company is still around it's generally a complete re-write.