[aitchnyu]

I was in an Indian service company and worked for Indian and US branches of a company. The regulations were high, employees know more stuff and people and *carve out* a streamlined workflow, we contractors have to obey the rules literally, our feedback are Chinese whispers (me, my manager, their manager...) and we have to fend for themselves.

For specific stories. We had Windows virtual desktops. Our unit test suites assume an Unix environment like the employees Macs or Jenkins, so we had to coax Jenkins to run our feature branches and there may be 12 hour waits for our builds. We also had to plan leaves around their quarterly plans and hard deadlines while they they never treated quarterly plans as deadlines or cycles. Debugging with client is affected by timezone differences too.