ioassociates in Bristol - any dealings?

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Maybe that's why I've never encountered a truly Agile company. I seem to remember the original premise of Agile stated the whole company from the trainee button-presser all the way up to the CEO and the directors had to buy into the methodology and resist the temptation to 'draw the Director's Gun'...

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I also got a HND, a little bit before you. I had to start as a tape-changing, printer-feeding computer operator and work my way up. I'm sure some people nowadays could make it from that modest beginning but I didn't have a super-expensive lifestyle or have everything as a subscription or have rent or...

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Wonder if this is an entuliptification thing. Give them the first three months of really good band width and then slowing make it worse until they just give up and stop using the product and hope the user doesn't remember/can't be bothered to unsubscribe...

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Maybe somebody finally used their third wish to put them back in the bottle!

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I got a couple of interviews in the south west through Sandersons, in the noughties I reckon. Different agency system these days it seems.

ioassociates website is fairly impressive https://www.ioassociates.co.uk/about-io/ although I couldn't help wondering whether the pictures of almost...

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I have applied for a contract to this company through a few routes but I am getting no response, I have rung their office number each day for the last three days. Mostly it is a recorded message saying 'there's nobody here to take your call' (despite apparently being important to them)

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Yeah for oldies!

On a related note I recently had a play with Cursor, building a personal hobby web app in various languages I'd either used many years ago or not at all. After a couple of (spare time) months I got it to build something usable and better than anything I could have done...

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It has been a while since I got a contract that wasn't from a previous client or contact. LinkedIn seems busy. As a few have said recently though it has been a case of apply, try and contact someone and tumbleweed. The last one I rang the agent contact number on Linkedin and got what was proably a call...