Indian Outsourcing Horror Story

Tech horror stories thread >be Indian >work as a code monkey at one of the smaller offshore development sweatshops >get project from Filipino client >requirements are unclear, contact clients team >client lets slip that they're an outsourcing house too and the project is somewhere from eastern Europe >Filipinos don't do any development, just pass it to a cheaper contractor (in this case us) aka middlemen >months pass, no progress >find out the eastern European guys are an outsourcing house as well, and they don't do any development and the actual client is somewhere from UK >every piece of info, document takes months to arrive since there are 4 different companies in the mix >6 months pass, barely any progress >turns out the Filipino guys misunderstood the scope of the project since the eastern Europeans refused to share their requirement document >that means the requirement document our guys created was at best based on an erroneous understanding of the project from the Filipinos >leave company >ff 4 years >project is still "in development" >brit clients are nearly bankrupt >>85394227 (OP) # >>be Indian stopped reading right here, too scary

An imageboard screenshot tells a deliberately exaggerated horror story about a software project passed through several outsourcing companies in India, the Philippines, Eastern Europe, and the UK. The punchline is that the responder stops reading at “be Indian” because the chain of outsourcing and bureaucratic miscommunication is already terrifying. It is used as a reaction to absurd corporate processes, doomed software projects, and outsourcing nightmares.

• @gentoomemes / 6904 2023-10-23