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[SchumiStars]

I did that once. Had a positive interview and was awaiting an offer, only for the agent to phone me and say it was dead in the water.

Me being me, phoned the director, who was in HK at the time and had a chat with him and the following week the offer came through.

Could have...

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Sometimes, I think perhaps I was one of the fortune ones to have been a contractor when the rates were reasonable and you could get a self cert mortgage.

One of the reasons why I live in London was due to the higher rates and better opportunities. Brexit, IR35, COVID have pretty much killed...

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There will be hundreds of applications for that. Hundreds of phone calls. No idea why the agent would do that to himself....

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The recrutier once asked me 10 technical questions. So not new tbh....

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There is always budget for a PM, regardless of required or not 😀

Management need someone to blame....

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Without developers, there is no need for testers, devopps or project management. Developers are required for applicatiom changes.

The alternative is to have agencies or offshore development teams which will then mean a race to the bottom. I.e. cheap agencies low costs....

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Market is dead Jim...