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[SofaKingdom]

Jesus - every time I post a job here, it gets pulled to pieces - I don't control the rates guys.

So here we go, this is where I come clean. Rates aren't set here. I have a total budget, which ultimately means I can, if I want to, put in 8 more senior resources (£500 p/d or so, maybe fewer,m at 650) and 4 more junior developers (Bobs with a year or so would be fine, as would anyone else). As long as I come in under the total charge rate, and can make some money for my company, then the client is happy.

As for the question asked, I work on the basis of skills - whether they're communication, technical, experience, etc etc - The name, ethnic origin, etc etc really make no difference to me.

I have seen some people who can't speak english (bar saying "Hello") and try to slap discrimination on agents - but to be honest, if you can't speak english, then you can't be told what to do accurately, and therefore you are of no use to my client - its as simple as that!!

So in light of the above, I'd welcome contact from anyone who is looking for a development role, with a Pega background.

Ok, so you have now moved up to £650 for a "few" candidates. That's a long way from where we started. Can you let me know what the rate ceiling is before I submit my cv? Ta.

[d000hg]

Presumably if you're totally amazing you can get £1000/day, IF you genuinely do 3X the work

If I worked in this skill I'd put forward an offer of supplying a mini-team of one expert (me) and 3 drones at £1500/day or so. Sadly I don't

[nomadd]

Presumably if you're totally amazing you can get £1000/day, IF you genuinely do 3X the work

If I worked in this skill I'd put forward an offer of supplying a mini-team of one expert (me) and 3 drones at £1500/day or so. Sadly I don't

It's not necessarily doing "3X the work", it's a question of knowing what you are doing. Most people don't. At that includes most of Pega's senior consultants.

I've seen this role posted all over Jobserve. It's Pega running on IBM WebSphere + WebSphere MQ. The internal architecture of Pega is based on an ancient code-base written in C/C++ many years ago; it was never designed for fault-tolerant distributed architectures like WebSphere and MQ. I pointed out these issues to Pega's own consultants when working on a big project for a UK Banking client, and they were clueless. Yes, it installs on Websphere, but it's a kludge. In the end, a long telephone call with their CTO in the US finally got me somewhere, but it was still left to me to figure out architectural workarounds for the client, as Pega weren't prepared to make the deep architectural changes required to their product. Most people don't realise this stuff, however, as they don't do their research and design properly. As I say, it's a question of knowing what you are doing, not being 3X faster.

Still, I'm sure The Agent's View just wants some cheap bodies and a healthy profit margin. So all the above is irrelevant. Quality isn't what most clients or agencies want these days; a cheap drone is more than enough. Oh, and the job is in the middle of nowhere. Not sure if TAV mentioned that in his sales pitch?

[The Agents View]

Ok, so you have now moved up to £650 for a "few" candidates. That's a long way from where we started. Can you let me know what the rate ceiling is before I submit my cv? Ta.

Ultimately I need 12 resources - end of.
My limit for one person would be 650 really - ultimately that would mean I need to find 3 much lower level resources to balance things out. This is where the quality issue starts to become a little complex.

If you have a team of lower level Pega developers who can work under you, then I will look at a "bulk buy" approach - total charge rate to me of £1600 per day, for 4 people - as long as they all have a year or so's experience and you can back them up (you're gonna have to work with them, so I wouldn't feed me donkeys if I were you!) - then that figure might even have a couple of quid in it for you.....

Remember though - these are only developers - I'm not after architects, I'm not after IT Directors, I want developers......

[The Agents View]

Still, I'm sure The Agent's View just wants some cheap bodies and a healthy profit margin. So all the above is irrelevant. Quality isn't what most clients or agencies want these days; a cheap drone is more than enough. Oh, and the job is in the middle of nowhere. Not sure if TAV mentioned that in his sales pitch?

If you're not going to say anything helpful, how about you don't say anything?

Cheap bodies and healthy profit? We're in the middle of a bloody recession mate - profit margins aren't the biggest concern right now - survival is - to be honest we're squeezed to the ends of the earth at the moment - I'm not overly fussed about these massive profit margins you seem to think only apply to the agency world - I want my candidate base to be working, I want the turnover to keep some of my figures looking submissable, and most importantly, I want someone who can help my client find solutions without moaning about it - what possible use is the information about what architecture is being used to anyone? It's hardly as if I can control it at this stage?

Location is Worcester, which is about 30 miles from Birmingham - which is hardly "in the middle of nowhere"

[HairyArsedBloke]

Location is Worcester, which is about 30 miles from Birmingham - which is hardly "in the middle of nowhere"

Er, ...... <nah, shut it HAB>

[nomadd]

We're in the middle of a bloody recession mate - profit margins aren't the biggest concern right now - survival is - to be honest we're squeezed to the ends of the earth at the moment..

Sorry, hold on a minute whilst I find my bleeding heart and violin.

I'll organise a collection for you. I'm sure the folks around here will give generously, based on the self-centered attitude of many of your prior posts...

[The Agents View]

Sorry, hold on a minute whilst I find my bleeding heart and violin.

I'll organise a collection for you. I'm sure the folks around here will give generously, based on the self-centered attitude of many of your prior posts...

I'm surprised you can even claim to have read any of my previous posts with your head inserted that far up your rear!

[nomadd]

I'm surprised you can even claim to have read any of my previous posts with your head inserted that far up your rear!

Finally, TAV we all know from the past is back. Lurking around the forum, expecting everyone else to do his job for him in these hard economic times...

[pmeswani]

Finally, TAV we all know from the past is back. Lurking around the forum, expecting everyone else to do his job for him in these hard economic times...

And there I thought TAV was using his networking skills.

I guess you never got an opportunity via Word of Mouth or via your networking skills.