I'm a professional PHP, Python and Javascript developer from the UK. I've worked with Django, Laravel, and React, among others. I also maintain a legacy Zend 1 application.
One place I interviewed at, I got really bad vibes from quite quickly.
Turned out their business model was essentially like payday loans, but for businesses, which immediately made me think I didn't want to work there on moral grounds.
Then they mentioned that their entire platform, which I would have been maintaining, was built entirely by offshore developers and they were looking to bring it onshore. I don't have an issue with working with offshore developers, but the quality of the code base could easily be really awful, and outsourcing the development of a core part of your business strikes me as a very, very bad idea.
The recruiter phoned up afterwards and I told him in no uncertain terms that they needn't bother offering me the job because I wouldn't be accepting it. Didn't stop him badgering me repeatedly about it, even after I'd taken a better offer elsewhere - he didn't seem to grasp the idea of it being any issue other than "not enough money being offered".
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One place I interviewed at, I got really bad vibes from quite quickly.
Turned out their business model was essentially like payday loans, but for businesses, which immediately made me think I didn't want to work there on moral grounds.
Then they mentioned that their entire platform, which I would have been maintaining, was built entirely by offshore developers and they were looking to bring it onshore. I don't have an issue with working with offshore developers, but the quality of the code base could easily be really awful, and outsourcing the development of a core part of your business strikes me as a very, very bad idea.
The recruiter phoned up afterwards and I told him in no uncertain terms that they needn't bother offering me the job because I wouldn't be accepting it. Didn't stop him badgering me repeatedly about it, even after I'd taken a better offer elsewhere - he didn't seem to grasp the idea of it being any issue other than "not enough money being offered".