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"Working with an agency is a great opportunity to learn about how to work with or avoid organizations that are incentivized to:
- Inflate costs
- Add engineering complexity
- Bill by the hour
- Build in a language/framework that you or your team don’t understand
- Avoid meeting the needs of your customer"
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"Breadcrumbing through extending deadlines and letting the inexperienced ones work on your project and charge you for it. And overall they’ll make sht up sooo conveniently tragic that you’ll be forced to say yes due to the incurred loss of backing off the initial deal."
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"The success rate is relatively low. In India, there is a lot of over-promise and under-delivery. Ideally, it should be the opposite. This is not just true of foreign projects. I know many people here locally who hired an agency and then repented of their mistake.
I used to work as a CTO, and we used to outsource some development work to local companies. There was so much notoriety. Companies would fake resumes and even change people’s LinkedIn profiles to make junior developers look like senior developers and inflate their billing. We then started doing third-party verifications at our own cost & black-listed a few agencies."
