>>In fact we are almost to the point of initiating an audit of what the heck they’ve been doing with our databases
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Get ready to witness the most unsustainable schlock you have ever seen in your IT life. You will see so much hard coding that if you sneeze the code will fail.
Happened to an old friend of mine when he was called in as an IT contractor after a whole fleet of disastrous h1b’s was summarily fired at a start-up. I’m not an expert in programming by any means but even I could understand why he wanted to smash his forehead against a wall every time he got to a new block of coding that he was called in to correct. It was like a half dozen Indian engineers with pumped up fake resumes, taking about 1,500 lines of code to write something that any decent junior CS major could have pulled off seamlessly with maybe 1-200 lines even without a decent code library and even then completely failed to write adequate code to run the company’s systems. The idiot CFO in charge of the start-up basically wasted millions in venture capital on “cheap” h1b hires from India and then had to waste even more resources to hire an American contractor to fix their incompetence. That was bad enough, but even after my friend saved their asses, of course the start-up managers didn’t even consider bringing him or his team on board for permanent positions, but instead went through another round of h1b hires. Who messed up everything. Again. Not surprised that they went under.