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0 pointsuk_programmer6y ago0 comments

Sure Domain Knowledge is important. But again this can all be discovered as you go along.

I had an interview at a this week for my next contract where they made redundant most of their employees as the business decided to just go with turnkey applications.

They will get someone like me in for 3 to 6 months to do application maintenance on anything they can't replace. This will be stuff like implementing stuff from penetration-testing, upgrading the applications and documenting missing bits and pieces and letting the business know what needs doing and where.

I don't need a pension being paid, no HR overhead (they can just ask me to leave whenever pretty much). I will be able to gleen enough from the business and their IT to piece the bits together. This is literally my bread and butter.

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fsloth6y ago

"But again this can all be discovered as you go along."

How are you going to discover that from just the sources without any institutional knowledge? It sounds to me this applies only to a specific niche you've managed to find. I.e. you get only those gigs where institutional knowledge is not paramount as the employers who need deep domain knowledge are not even trying to hire you. I don't mean this in a deragoratory sense - it sounds to me you provide great value to your employers - but just in that you work in a specific market segment and what is true in your segment might not hold in others.

uk_programmerOP6y ago

The business stake holders are going to be there. Sure at some point it might be just too much work but typically there is somewhere in between where you can piece it together.

> I don't mean this in a deragoratory sense - it sounds to me you provide great value to your employers - but just in that you work in a specific market segment and what is true in your segment might not hold in others.

I've worked in many different sectors. Normally fintech though.

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