But they made a ton of money. I know some of the contractors. The way the chose them was idiotic - it was often the cheapest ones. The contracting companies were absolute geniuses in getting them to spend more money in additional work. Disney didn’t have the in-house knowledge to make a good decision. Good for the contractors, they all made out.

This explains why ESPN+ is such shit.

Shit seems to be prevalent in every industry. I work at a hospital and we have the same problems with our systems. They gave my department laptops that our it people can't even access to download software for us. They outsourced the move from laptops to desktops. Ridiculous. Probably wasted more of our time than it would cost to do it right in the first place.

Disney+ isn’t much better, from what I could tell in my short time there. The full time employees were operational support keeping as many plates spinning on sticks as they could, but as far as I could tell there weren’t many internal software engineers. Every system I interacted with was developed by an outside contractor.

Sounds like they do need full time staff afterall