> It’s very hard to get external contractors to be excited when they dont get the swag / on-sites and share the culture.
It’s not the lack of swag or on-sites. Companies usually outsource to cut costs, so there’s your problem. Also, I’m not convinced there’s correlation between being “excited” about a company and producing good quality results.
I agree with you that one does not have to be excited to ship production quality results.
I was previously referring to the 'external "didn't care" enough' which is generally true, and IMO not an inherently bad thing on its own
But I am not sure outsourcing to cut costs is happening as much now than a few years ago. The entire outsourcing tech market is shrinking, as most teams prefer to keep devs in-house than to outsource it away.
