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Why do companies like GP, Banglalink, and bKash etc hire so many software engineers through third-party companies like Vivasoft, Miaki, Exabyting, and others instead of hiring them directly?

I understand that direct hiring comes with long-term commitments, benefits, and other liabilities. But from an engineer's perspective, this model feels frustrating.

For example, suppose GP pays a vendor 100K BDT per month for one engineer, but the engineer receives only 60K. The remaining 40K goes to the vendor. Obviously, the vendor has operating costs, but the gap still feels huge.

The client gets the engineer's skills, the engineer does the actual technical work, yet a significant portion of the budget goes to the intermediary. Meanwhile, the engineer may earn much less than what the client is willing to spend on that resource.

What frustrates me most is that this model seems to have become normal in our industry. Engineers do the work, but third-party companies take a substantial cut, while the people actually building the products may struggle to get compensation that reflects their value.

Outsourcing itself isn't the problem, but this resource-based hiring model makes it feel like engineers are being treated more as billable resources than as people building long-term careers. It's frustrating to see how much value can be created by an engineer while so much of the budget never reaches them.

I was laid off due to cost cutting as the client is gone, project is gone and there were no single requirement in other teams.

How do I explain this situation if an interviewer ask me, as there are some months of gap in my CV?

I was the top performer of the team. The whole team was laid off 😓

The tech industry used to feel much more stable.

Now, layoffs seem to be happening everywhere. Colleagues, friends, and so many skilled professionals are facing uncertainty. It makes me wonder: what is happening to the services industry?

Today, if a client leaves or a project isn't renewed, companies can suddenly let go of the engineers who were working on it.

Is that really a sustainable model?

Where is the sense of security for those engineers? They have families depending on them, children to support, bills to pay, and responsibilities that don't disappear when a project ends.

With hiring freezes happening across the world, how are people supposed to survive these gaps?

I understand that businesses need to manage costs and stay profitable. But when a project ends, the people behind that project don't suddenly stop having responsibilities.

Sometimes I genuinely wonder: is this the uncertainty we signed up for when we chose CS?

We were told that technology would be the future. We learned, adapted, worked hard, and built careers around it.

Yet today, even experienced and skilled professionals can find themselves wondering whether their job will still exist a few months from now.

Maybe the industry is changing. Maybe the old idea of job security in tech is simply gone.

But if that's the case, we should probably start talking more honestly about what a sustainable tech career actually looks like.

The tech industry used to feel much more stable.

Now, layoffs seem to be happening everywhere. Colleagues, friends, and so many skilled professionals are facing uncertainty. It makes me wonder: what is happening to the services industry?

Today, if a client leaves or a project isn't renewed, companies can suddenly let go of the engineers who were working on it.

Is that really a sustainable model?

Where is the sense of security for those engineers? They have families depending on them, children to support, bills to pay, and responsibilities that don't disappear when a project ends.

With hiring freezes happening across the world, how are people supposed to survive these gaps?

I understand that businesses need to manage costs and stay profitable. But when a project ends, the people behind that project don't suddenly stop having responsibilities.

Sometimes I genuinely wonder: is this the uncertainty we signed up for when we chose CS?

We were told that technology would be the future. We learned, adapted, worked hard, and built careers around it.

Yet today, even experienced and skilled professionals can find themselves wondering whether their job will still exist a few months from now.

Maybe the industry is changing. Maybe the old idea of job security in tech is simply gone.

But if that's the case, we should probably start talking more honestly about what a sustainable tech career actually looks like.

Hiring seems to freeze, when cost cutting comes in engineers are the most affected. Is the services based software business in Bangladesh going down? When a client leaves, do these companies assign engineers to other projects or lay off? Feels so much uncertainty...

Is there any way to use Opencode as a chat interface like the ones have in Claude Code, Codex, Github Copilot?

I am aware of their CLI, but specifically looking for a chat interface in VSCode which is more convenient to use I think.

Can anyone suggest a good tutorial on Performance testing with k6? Also some environments where I can play around k6.

Thanks.

How real teams automate test scripts?

If you have more than 100+ existing tests for a product, and you need to automate a new functionality/feature, how would plan and write test scripts for it?

Do teams follow page object models?

Do teams directly integrate tests into CI/CD or first dockerize playwright tests and then integrate with CI/CD?

I am trying to understand an end to end automated test execution flow for a regression testing cycle.

From scripting to execution with reporting.

Thanks 🙏

How real teams automate test scripts?

If you have more than 100+ existing tests for a product, and you need to automate a new functionality/feature, how would plan and write test scripts for it?

Do teams follow page object models?

Do teams directly integrate tests into CI/CD or first dockerize playwright tests and then integrate with CI/CD?

I am trying to understand an end to end automated test execution flow for a regression testing cycle.

From scripting to execution with reporting.

Thanks 🙏

How real teams automate test scripts?

If you have more than 100+ existing tests for a product, and you need to automate a new functionality/feature, how would plan and write test scripts for it?

Do teams follow page object models?

Do teams directly integrate tests into CI/CD or first dockerize playwright tests and then integrate with CI/CD?

I am trying to understand an end to end automated test execution flow for a regression testing cycle.

From scripting to execution with reporting.

Thanks 🙏

How real teams automate test scripts?

If you have more than 100+ existing tests for a product, and you need to automate a new functionality/feature, how would plan and write test scripts for it?

Do teams follow page object models?

Do teams directly integrate tests into CI/CD or first dockerize playwright tests and then integrate with CI/CD?

I am trying to understand an end to end automated test execution flow for a regression testing cycle.

From scripting to execution with reporting.

Thanks 🙏

How real teams automate test scripts?

If you have more than 100+ existing tests for a product, and you need to automate a new functionality/feature, how would plan and write test scripts for it?

Do teams follow page object models?

Do teams directly integrate tests into CI/CD or first dockerize playwright tests and then integrate with CI/CD?

I am trying to understand an end to end automated test execution flow for a regression testing cycle.

From scripting to execution with reporting.

Thanks 🙏

Hi everyone,

Please suggest some good tutorials for performance testing with `JMeter` and `K6`.

Some end to end projects demonstration would be nice.

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,

Please suggest some good tutorials for performance testing with `JMeter` and `K6`.

Some end to end projects demonstration would be nice.

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,

Please suggest some good tutorials for performance testing with `JMeter` and `K6`.

Some end to end projects demonstration would be nice.

Thanks in advance.

Can anyone suggest a beginner friendly playwright course so I can learn test automations?

If it covers with AI and MCP that would be nice.

Thanks in advance.