[raw_anon_1111]

Outsourced staff aug contractors have always been mediocre.

From the contracting side, I’ve worked as a staff Aug contractor for six weeks when I was between jobs in 2012 and it was so bad I just walked off with no job lined up within four weeks.

For context staff Aug vs consulting is about who owns the project

Consulting = the customer gives you high level requirements and statement of work and you control the project (or your company)

Staff Aug = the client controls the project and you are a warm disposable body.

[bdangubic]

hm I don’t disagree with you in principle but there is sooooo much outsourcing (America First and all that jazz people eat up during election cycles lol) that there are many places (worked in two such places just in the last year) where staff aug has been around for decade+ (started with team of 2, now 48). client controls everything, staff hacks shit and does amazing job. from my experience there is a ton of this and work of often anything but mediocre

[icedchai]

Yep, with staff aug the developers are treated like cogs. Nobody good sticks around in that environment.