>
> On Apr 16, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Vitaliy wrote:
>
> William Couture wrote:
>> My company recently hired a contract programmer to do a project  
>> that we
>> didn't have time/resources to do.  So we did several interviews.
>>
>> One candidate wasn't doing very well, but tried to hide it by  
>> talking a
>> lot.
>>
>> So, I asked him a "nonsense" question.  He did not realize that it  
>> was
>> nonsense, and tried to B***S*** his way through it.
>>
>> Needless to say, someone else got the job.
>
> Bill, can you share more of this experience? How did you go about  
> finding
> the contractors? Was it a large project? Was it successful, and why  
> you
> think it was/wasn't?
>
> We find ourselves in these sorts of situations all the time, yet our
> experience with outsourcing is all negative.

Was it all negative ?  Any positives ?   Can you give a percentage ?
MA
>
> Vitaliy
>


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