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rocktronAMP
Fingers like lightning
Last Activity: Today, 15:56
Joined: 8 June 2007
Location: London, UK
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  • rocktronAMP
    replied to State of the Market
    Wow! Thanks willendure for your thoughts. I speculate mass Agentic Interviewing claiming to cut out the recruitment consultants and scale on today's macroeconomic realities, "Today, we built a new fangled AI platform called WILL-U-ROCK (see what I did there?) that interviews 1,000 senior devs in...
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  • rocktronAMP
    replied to State of the Market
    I am still looking... I thought two weeks ago would have the berries, because I had few decent interviews and then nothing else. One rejection, but remaining two still are positive but there is no news and the poor recruiter are chasing whoever. That's my state of the market. Up and then down. Meanwhile...
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    Last edited by rocktronAMP; 5 June 2026, 15:05.

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  • rocktronAMP
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    I had a chance with Outside IR35 to get just 3 months of Golang. It didn't last with me in 2019, because the contract was just 3 months.

    I think with Rust, Scala and Go that is more than just the programming language. It is the community of engineers, popularity of the repository and the...
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    Last edited by rocktronAMP; 20 May 2026, 20:51.

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  • rocktronAMP
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    JFC! How is does C# frontend interact / commicate with Java 8 Backend? Is it even Cloud-native?

    It sounds similar to React/Java17 contract that I am dealing with now. I am a principal lead the codebase is a 8-10 years old, written as huge complex architecture of 30+ Monolith services. Microservices...
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  • I find LinkedIn search hit and miss for me.
    It is not really optimised for UK contractors and associated market.
    If I set the filter to ( "Remote", "Contract", "London" 15 miles) then search, I see "On-site" only Morgan Stanley jobs still appear in...
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    Last edited by rocktronAMP; 18 May 2026, 14:04.

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