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by dkek 758 days ago
Not a question.

However as a fellow european, having worked for large "national/eu important companies", this article resonated a lot with me and my frustrations. Granted I don't do anything "security" related.

Everything in "it infrastructure" has been outsourced to India, at best Poland. You have competent people in eu offices that don't have the power to use their own hardware. You have to beg for weeks to barely skilled ticket masters from outsourcing companies, endless meetings.

All eu staff is relegated to feature factories or process managers. Zero ops. "It's not our core competency."

I refuse to ever again work for the large "of national security" european companies. It's soul crushing. And it is very clear nobody cares.

It hurts me everytime I read how tens of billions are allocated for whatever EU soverignity. I have been in way too many 10 managers 2 engineers teams with way too many long meetings begging teams from $indian_outsourcing_company to let me do my job.