Comment by hardware2win
3 years ago
>consultants
Who?
I see people constantly talking about those "consultants", yet what they are?
Just dev that has single-person company?
3 years ago
>consultants
Who?
I see people constantly talking about those "consultants", yet what they are?
Just dev that has single-person company?
Hello, I'm a consultant. In practice it's just a fancy word for temps. Company hsa money and needs some engineers but don't want to hire or take up the burden of employment, and / or needs some fresh bodies to wake up their in-house developers / make them fear for their own jobs because they've stagnated, they call us.
But we're a relatively small consultancy (think hundreds instead of tens of thousands like the bigger players), so it's a bit more refined. We do have decent developers, but the issue with consultancy on that level is they're too smart for their own good, they will suggest an over-engineered solution that can't be maintained by anyone BUT these consultants and / or hired self-employed people. It's a weird fallacy, a weird rotating door of consultants and cycles of development where every 10 or so years they do a full rearchitecture / rebuild of their back-ends, while meanwhile some people just sit and maintain the existing - and working - core systems.
It's massively wasteful. But it usually pays better than a regular in-house developer, and it's lower risk than going self-employed because you still work for an employer who pays you per month. I'm just salty that said employer creams off 2/3rds of my hourly rate.
there's a ton of consulting companies which are humonguous. Companies like Accenture with 780000 employees, Tata Consultancy with 488000 consultants, CapGemini with 300k-ish... it's one of the largest businesses in the world
Just to reword the sibling; none of those consultants ever created a best-selling piece of software.
They are not the people that create the software you install on your machine. That task is usually done by a lone developer at some random place.
I mean, I don't think that's exactly a fair comparison. These companies are focused a lot (and I mean a lot) more on enterprise software than your regular desktop software. I'm talking about Banking Systems, Automation Platforms, Government Software, stuff that has no use outside the corporate world. And they do genuinely do good work in these areas. Sure, they're not pioneers or doing some groundbreaking research, but they do their job and they do their job well (of course there are exceptions - but these aren't 100 billion dollar companies for nothing).
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These write big turds.
If they can't afford to write a simple cross-platform QT5 based software for actual computing (AKA desktops except for niche usage on art with iPad for drawings and some audio production), they are doomed. Period.