The Dirty Business Tricks!!
The fears that exist in most business owners regarding outsourcing work to service providers can not be dismissed entirely because there are outsourcing businesses out there that are not just failing to deliver the expected results but are also tricking their clients into hiring them. And we are talking about super creative gimmicks that a number of businesses regardless of smart you are may fall for it within the blink of an eye.
In this article, I shall share with you the dirty business trick that is majorly found when companies outsource software development, for the benefit of the companies in the US, a lot of companies based there are the ones being tricked into this intelligent scam.
If there is any complicated industry that is difficult to achieve results in, it is B2B lead generation in the outsourcing industry, and the outsourcing profit margins are usually quite thin, so some businesses have decided to be creative about that.
Some of the business strategies have boiled down to “hire students for 4000 USD per year, put them on three to four months course and then sell as Senior Software Developers”.
It's also worth noting that most education systems are of extremely low quality especially when it comes to molding software engineers, hence only a few institutions are recognized for producing the best quality, and/or the best are usually self-taught, which means that an average student is expected to have zero useful knowledge prior to that course.
So they have developed a special course that is focused on passing interviews - they tell you all the right answers, they edit your CV to make up all the required experience, and they make you talk through the interviews with coaches again and again until you're really good at it and in the end, you're presented to the client.
Of course, a team can't consist only of such people so there are real senior-level developers as well, but as the result, they have to do their job plus tasks meant for fake developers as well. If some team starts to fail especially miserably there have “special reserve” teams that help (without the client knowing).
The interesting thing is that most clients never notice that something is wrong.
What dirty business tricks do you that are being carried out in the outsourcing industry? Leave a comment.
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