What strategies have worked when BTC delivers a low quality work product? Of course, other than doing the work yourself.
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First off, don’t criticize them, you should be emulating them. These people are geniuses.
They’ve engineered a fully functioning ecosystem, teams, tickets, workflows, dashboards, etc. All designed to give the appearance of progress while producing none. It’s not just low-quality work. It’s a scalable model of doing nothing.
BTC impats into Campus are not highly skilled and end up doing clerical type work such as scheduling group meetings and updating department website.
No cutting edge work or thoughts from people willing to work for 1/10th salary.
more work coming to BTC only mean one thing, BTC doing really really really greattt job...why exxon hire more BTC folks and send them to houston as expats if they are not the best...houston people becoming lazy and start to blame hardworking BTC engineers...keep up the good work BTC folks..
There is another dimension that will compound the BTC quality issue.
EM bidding only to engineering companies that commit to 100% design hours expended in India.
EM bidding fabrication to India yards only.
EM’s goal is for Contractors to design in India, BTC check the design, then design gets fabricated in India with BTC oversight.
A fabulous idea, with the best of intentions, what could possibly go wrong?
BTC has a new strategy. They won’t share their files so you can’t check their work! Cultural thing I guess. They think if they don’t share the info it gives them more power. Really bad behavior.
Going all-in on engineers that will work for 1/10 the normal rates will eventually be labeled a “root cause”.
We are all making bets on just how large that catastrophe will be and how many fatalities.
Just let that sink in as you recall all the obvious errors that you have corrected from BTC.
@k9 what's your definition of great?
I disagree. BTC is smoking it. Great quality of work!
knowing how to run the numbers safely and legally, as well as their trade offs with project costs, is the hard part
you’re not as smart as you seem to think you are
@bd What constitutes an “engineering package” at EM?
I’m not asking for IP, just give the ignorant among us a high-level overview of your super-awesome technical skills that no one else on earth could ever possibly learn or apply, like, never-ever.
lol you people run numbers and generate graphs with legacy (often unsupported) digital tools, drop it in a slide deck with some snips from a dated textbook, and call it an “engineering package.” No wonder why your job is being outsourced.
Sadly, you either fix it yourself, or create a "workaround" and keep quiet. Bring the issue to light and you put on the chopping block.
Just ignore it. Let the company get what it's paid for. That's my new strategy.
@OP low quality work from BTC, I have a hard time believing that. Must be a one off. Our Indian colleagues are fantastic at delivering, sorry they would be fantastic at delivering for Uber Eats
You will have better luck getting an engineering package generate by ai than another indian
@OP None of you people can explain what you do, so I don’t see how you can apply any standard of quality to it.
If your job can be sent to Bangalore then it probably doesn’t take much skill to begin with.
Try Claude
I've found the same strategy that works when I get shoddy work product from Spring, Clinton, the US teams.
Keep plugging and cussing.
Lowering expectations has been my most effective strategy, yet they still find new ways to disappoint. Still optimistic, may file a drilling report on their performance.