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Extensions at HSBC (Canary Wharf)?
They are just very very slow about paperwork. Every piece of paper takes weeks to move through the hierarchy when everything is smooth, and the time can be easily doubled when a problem occurs at any stage. Resource solution has a monopoly there and hence has no incentive at all to speed up...- Post #4
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State of the Market Software Testing
Extreme? That's the very reality! Quite a few places run development teams this way. At the places not maturing enough, the tests are implemented by a group of people called "developer in test".- Post #15
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State of the Market Software Testing
This is so out dated. Developers should be responsible for test their own code, and are expected to implement both unit and integration tests to ensure delivery of WORKING code. Simply throwing half baked code to testers is very irresponsible! The role of a test analyst is now limited to...- Post #13
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State of the Market Software Testing
The market is hot for the ones with developer skills who're good at automate things.- Post #7
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Changing technologies
How about pick an open source project of your preferred tech stack and start contributing? Also it helps to focus on practice transferable skills on the job. Be a brilliant coder and you'll find people care less about your tech stack. -
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Agencies to avoid....
Paying on time and having access to high value contracts are the most important things. The rest is more like a game. You can always learn to play it to your own advantage.- Post #169
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Sharepoint Development contract - London £300-£350 a day
At £350 a day you can barely find someone good to do ordinary development work not requiring any special skill.- Post #20
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Some advice needed.....can they do this??
It doesn't matter. There are plenty of clients.- Post #19
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New to London Contracts!
I find LinkedIn is much better at sourcing higher rate roles. Just setup your profile and wait for messages to come in.- Post #21
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Sharepoint Development contract - London £300-£350 a day
If you don't want to end up cleaning a mess, just learn it and do it yourself.- Post #10
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Current Market for Security Cleared Engineers (Windows Server)
Though short term contract is not a niche when combined with low rate. Nobody likes to remain on low rate for longer than necessary.- Post #8
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Possible perm opportunity to learn Biztalk - worth it?
BizTalk is a dead end. It's likely used only in dull MS shops where the clueless managers are acting as MS salesman.- Post #2
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Searching for SQL Server\ASP.NET Developer Contracts
.NET 3.5 Web Forms is at least 3 years outdated. I don't know if anybody still doing it, or even if they do, they'll advertise for ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET WebApi. If you've done more 8 years in this industry, you're expected to specialize in at least two other programming languages / platforms...- Post #20
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Local candidates only and evidence of 'long' assignments on cv.
It's the dead sea effect. The good ones often do not stay very long. In a few months they'll make all the positive contribution allowed by the mediocre managers and then move away for greener grass.- Post #34
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