It is amazing how dishonest so many companies are. In America they sell you on 20 hours a week when they don’t have a single hour available. Is it optimistic thinking? Are they just being unrealistic, or just plain dishonest? In India, they have different tricks. In India they have the hours, they just don’t necessarily want to allocate their best software developers to your dumb project.
Indians will try to pass off a beginner as a Senior Developer and charge you a higher rate. The problem for them is that I have them bid on a project as part of the screening. I know how long a senior developer takes on this type of project, so I can tell if they are either giving me a really slow senior developer, or a really inexperienced junior developer.
In any case, Indian companies who care about their reputation, as well as the reputation of their country should realize that India will get ahead much faster if they develop a reputation for honesty. Yes, most of the rest of the world is also crooked, but that doesn’t mean that you should be that way too.
Personally, I feel that government agencies should monitor what software companies do. There is too much fraud and trickery going on and it is just not funny. In the long run, honesty gets you long term reliable clients that you can grow your business with. Trickery gets you disgruntled clients who will dump you fast. How fast will your company grow if you lose your clients as fast as you get them?
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