That's awesome. What group were you in?
I wasn't EY, I was in through a small local firm. And we billed much less :). So the weekends when the EY guys didn't fly home, they had a few hundred $ to burn. We lived well on the weekends!
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
by JabavuAdams on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:07PM
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What are EY kids?
Re:I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
by comradesmith on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:29PM
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Earnest and Young placed contractors?
Yes, billed at $120/hr for a recent college grad programmer, with per-diems and weekend travel allowances to go back home (fly cross-country). I should note that this was pre dot-com bust... late 1990s, so $120/hr was pretty good then.
But the client company had more cash-flow than they could burn, so they didn't care. Unsurprisingly, they hit serious financial difficulties within a few years.
On the rare occasion that we were given a task, we would all descend upon one computer like vultures, group-solving the problem typically in 60minutes or less. Then it was back to doing nothing.
Diplomacy (the game) became our primary activity. It was fun, but such a terrible waste of time, talent, and money.