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[TheDude]

Where your test cases AI generated? If so maybe your code isn't as well tested as you think it is......

[TheDude]

I have mentioned this before but I worked at a large European bank and their strategy in Canary Wharf at least was clearly based on cheap Indian developers. The dev floor I worked on was at least 70% Indian and half used to disappear at 4:30 in the summer to play cricket....

[TheDude]

I had a first interview yesterday....

[TheDude]

It's easiest for them to ghost you.

In my experience if you do chase for an outcome you rarely get told that you didn't get the gig. I suspect in some cases the agent gets ghosted by the hiring firm as well....

[TheDude]

In this market if you didn't get an offer within a day or two you almost certainly didn't get the gig.

If the agent spins you a convoluted tale like this you definitely did not get the gig....

[TheDude]

I am in an outside gig in the public sector.

The limiting factor on tenure appears to be constantly changing supply chains....

[TheDude]

I see this as possibly a punt at going perm and to work with newer technologies.. I am 53 and won't have many more chances....

[TheDude]

Interview next week with a previous banking client for a role I have previously performed.

3 days a week in London and the rate is the same as when I left four years ago but I am going nowhere in my current public sector gig....

[TheDude]

I wasn't replying to you or being nasty.

A few years ago I assumed that agents would keep phoning and there was no way I would accept a contract less than £xxx a day.

I as many others have discovered your day rate is not dictated by what I used to earn or even the bare minimum...

[TheDude]

That is the correct attitude.

You may think that 'your' rate is £700+ per day but you don't get to decide....