State of the Market

[ruasonid]

Lots of seasonal work available:

Father christmas in Maidstone (ME14) | Swinton Recruitment - Totaljobs

Hourly rates better than Bobs.

[mmo0690]

So much for £200/£250 a day. Here is the link.

Back End Developer/Software Developer/C# Software Engineer - Manchester - November-04-2019 (HT264)

[PerfectStorm]

Lots of seasonal work available:

Father christmas in Maidstone (ME14) | Swinton Recruitment - Totaljobs

Hourly rates better than Bobs.

Fluent English is necessary however we are also looking for multi lingual Santas in certain locations.

Plenty greetings - now make sure you're good and do the needful.

[pauldee]

So much for £200/£250 a day. Here is the link.

Back End Developer/Software Developer/C# Software Engineer - Manchester - November-04-2019 (HT264)

I got this one on email. Backend developer: Bootstrap, jQuery

The mention of stored procedures is at least correct but enough to make me run a mile.

[FIERCE TANK BATTLE]

Saw this from Oscar recruitment

Backend dev contract with some front end tech?
Really strange one with a reduced rate.

All the rage these days. I need a plumber to install a new boiler in my kitchen and also design a colour scheme and then paint the kitchen.

Good old 'full stack developers'. There's really no such thing. Jack of all trades and that.

[FIERCE TANK BATTLE]

They always end up overegging the interview process, I fail on 'technical understanding', and they go on to keep advertising the role months later

We've all been there I think, it's absolutely rage inducing to be interviewed by a total retard.

I console myself into thinking this is why they have such a problem in the first place. Like when I failed a technical test because they 'couldn't get it to run'.

If your developer can't get a solution to run, then I think I've found your problem and the reason you're paying over the odds for outside talent

[dx4100]

We've all been there I think, it's absolutely rage inducing to be interviewed by a total retard.

I console myself into thinking this is why they have such a problem in the first place. Like when I failed a technical test because they 'couldn't get it to run'.

If your developer can't get a solution to run, then I think I've found your problem and the reason you're paying over the odds for outside talent

THIS!!!!

[CheeseSlice]

All the rage these days. I need a plumber to install a new boiler in my kitchen and also design a colour scheme and then paint the kitchen.

Good old 'full stack developers'. There's really no such thing. Jack of all trades and that.

The theory isn't unreasonable if hiring a small specialist company and not just a person. E.g. a bathroom fitter can arrange for electrics, plumbing, plastering, painting and tiling. Different bods brought in to do each though.

Just need to convince the client to do the 'full stack' on a fixed price and let you use your own freelancers to do the bits you can't. I'm guessing they expect a single person for this though.

[FIERCE TANK BATTLE]

I'm guessing they expect a single person for this though.

Bingo.

Even better when you do the testing yourself.

I spent a few hours the other day writing a manual regression test script.

Step 1, open the browser. Expected result: the browser opens

Step 2, click the button marked 'home', expected result: the home page appears

... Step 135, click the 'piss money away' button repeatedly

[rogerfederer]

Exactly this...

There was a role in Preston I went for recently who gave me a whiteboard exercise. As far as I know I did really well in both stages of the interview and there only feeling was I was a bit weak on the white board exercise. Four months later they was still looking for some chump who held the secret magic to what they wanted to see on their white board exercise.

Madness

Be very wary of providing free consulting solutions services in extended interviews for strangely specific problems. Gathering consensus from a few experts over interviews is a known way to gain free consultancy.