Re: The so called 'Consultants' from India

Dr. Jai Maharaj (jai_at_mantra.com) wrote:
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> When I forwarded the original article in this thread
> to a computer professional from Bharat for his
> reaction, I received the following comments from him
> (name and address withheld.)

> : I'll share with you my personal experience right here in the Bay
> : Area about 5 years ago. My boss went to India with another Indian
> : local permanent employee. After screening quite a few resumes they
> : interviewed about 20 candidates for 4-8 positions and selected 6
> : of them. My boss came back to the US believing these contractors
> : will be coming to the US within 6 weeks but after 2 months of
> : excuses from India my boss HAD to accept 6 other not-known Indian
> : contractors who knew very little or nothing at all about the
> : project.

Why did he have to accept them? Surely at that stage it was obvious he was being screwed by the supplier, so why carry on doing business with them. Why not just call up the local contract agency? It sounds rather improbable.

> : In the same company, other projects had several other
> : Indian contractors who created their OWN subproject to develop
> : some tool and this new product was sold to this US company by an
> : Indian supplier -- what a bunch of thieves!

Any evidence of this little story? Probably not.

Paul.

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