[throwaway11460]

Probably not deliberate, but this guy has absolutely no business being in leadership.

- he didn't make sure somebody helped the new team members build and run the project

- he didn't make sure somebody took the new guys through their first PR

- he bragged about the project being nonstandard and complicated and was delighted when the new guys couldn't just figure it out

- he decided his own opinions and goals are more important than his employers' but still took their money

- then he bragged about all of this on the internet as if he was some big hero that saved the job market

Wtf is this bullshit doing on HN front page? This is not the way to run software teams.

[MrDresden]

The author clearly mentions that if the offshore team is capable, he will be up for using their services.

They mention that the offshore team got extensive hand holding with him, and that the project is very well documented. Still they were unable to get anything done even after a month.

And then two months in, they start lying to their own managers to hide their incompetence.

If a team that is selling their expertise as a product is unable to get anything done until on the three month mark, and the results are as pathetic as the author makes it out to have been then they get no sympathy from me.

[throwaway11460]

He said he answered questions. Seems like his answers were useless since they kept asking. And why was he answering, and not someone from the team? This is classic situation in onboarding new devs on a team - the solution is to assign a dev to pair program with them for few days, that way it's either immediately visible they can't do the job and you bring that to the stakeholders, or they make a PR, nothing in between.

1 month is no time to expect great results even with onshore employees coming into your office, much less remote guys in a nonstandard difficult project. They probably meant they are finally beginning to understand it.

This is not "a team", it's a bunch of new developers in the authors' team and treating them in any other way is a serious leadership mistake. The author is wasting his employer's money.