Everyone on my sub-team other than me is a contractor. India has more honor students than America has students, so they tell the smart ones to go get tech credentials. It works for them. I don't like it but what can you do when we can't find qualified engineers? A lot of it is the fault of American kids, they aren't acquiring the STEM skills that are needed in the marketplace, and by the time they realize it, they are saddled with obligations that make it difficult to go back to school. $0.02.Flavour of the month (decade?) remember contracting out employees rage in the 90's, now the companies are crying 'cause they thought they could just hire the skilled trades as needed instead of investing in old practices of training. Now everyone wants an almost nonexistent commodity.