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Originally Posted by Larry Legend
Everyone I know would have the exact same reaction.
If they wanted to get the whole company working together on something then they probably succeeded.
I figure I probably know who the company is. There's a place here in Austin who's whole business model is to buy failing companies and replace everyone with outsourced labor, through the site Crossover. They bought a company I worked for years ago. I had done contract work for that company over the years because they had literally no one on staff with some domain knowledge that I had.
No big deal - it was just their entire billing system, which literally no one at the company knew anything about - where it was, what tech it was built on, how it worked, etc. After I left they switched code management from Perforce to git and actually lost the entire repo for the project. They also lost the build machine, which, without he repo, could not be reproduced. So making changes to that machine was basically "coding in prod" all the time.
Anyway I had so much leverage because of this that they didn't make me jump through their hoops but holy crap it seemed miserable.
Yeah, they saved a ton of money by globally outsourcing EVERYTHING but literally no one knew how to do anything and it was a giant trash fire.