Re: The so called 'Consultants' from India

I think this info is either incorrect or the people hired were of some different expertise than they were required. I have had interaction with decent no technical people here in Silicon Valley(mostly on my job) and Indians are highly competetive as compared with colleagus.

And most importantly very fast to pick up their new line of work. And as far as learning on the job many companies do but they make sure they have couple of experts on the job so that these people learn on the job and help this expert grp alongwith. These are THE EXPERTS and you cant fuck around with them. These people usually know so much that this small grp in itself can do the whole job by themselves if they wish to.

Now I just wonder how can there be a number of them with 5-7 yrs of experience not knowing anything about the computers and are still staying in the computers field. This is just not possible.

Someone(I dont know who is the originateor) has posted some absolute crap here or he hired people from a junk consultant.

-shrikant

Nelson Skinner wrote:
Anton Geshelin wrote...
> > Frank Hendrix wrote:
> > > Hey people look what I just found !
> > > Frank Hendrix
> > > LOBBYdata the UK Parliamentary database "
> > > I like to share with you my experience with some overseas computer
> > > consultants just to see if any other project managers out there has
> > > had a similar experience.
> > > firm the name of which I would not say publicly is supposed to be THE
> > > consulting firm of India, and has a number of U.S and European
> > > companies as their clients.
> > > The 20 consultants arrived about 6 months ago, at first, they had to
> > > go thru all the problems of leaving their country and families for the
> > > first time, which is understandable. But as time went on, myself and
> > > few others in the team started noticing that many of these
> > > 'consultants' are pretty much devoid of any knowledge of computers at
> > > all. Although, a lot of the resumes did indicate they have MSc MCA(god
> > > knows what the hell that is!) and other degrees and 'upto seven years
> > > experience building Powerbuilder applications',some of these people in
> > > consultant had to go and attend a celebration in india of her sister's
> > >
> > > coming of age!, can you beleive that?.
> > > Well, needless to say, eventually all the consultants were slowly
> > > replaced with local ones, they are more expensive, but atleast they
> > > knew what they are doing.
> > >
> > > Sandy Sears.
> > The question, I have for you, is, why did you not fire them immediately
> > when you realized what happened? That is what a responsible
> > project manager should do.
> >
> Unfortunately, when one uses international consulting firms and has a
> multinational operation, there are many pressures which prevent one from
Received on Wed May 01 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST