I agree with all of your points, Ted. They want to move to something and they are not forthcoming in the entirety of the why change.
Is it to get rid of the other guy who may be a great coder as well as a great PITA? Is there a new directive within all of IT to embrace modern technology?
Are they really looking for an Architect to lead the product into Angular and python type of app that they can point to?
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 8:30 AM Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 7:28 AM Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
They are asking me to propose what I think is the best option.
And I want to go back and hammer on this point one more time: they are asking you to tell them, for free, what they should spend the next decade doing. They are asking for consulting for free. They may not even have a guy that's retiring, they just want 30 experts to come in and tell them, FOR FREE, what they should be doing next. Then, they can send the 30-years-experience guy to school for the new thing, and look how much money they save!
No work on spec.
YOUR job , in the interview, is to convince them that you are the person qualified to work for them to answer that question. You show them that by asking more questions about the application than they can answer to show that you see the need to plan ahead, analyse the situation, research and design the optimal solution. Prove that you are qualified in the interview. Then, they can hire you to solve their problems.
As a consultant, I have had to fall back to the line that "I can only give advice as part of client-consultant contractual relationship."
-- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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