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Discussion on: Working as a software engineer for a dev shop with projects vs a product company

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Vincent Quigley

In my experience a dev shop (services company) will ship you from project to project and work you to the bone.you are shipped out to customers who pay a premium daily rate and expect 110% of you.

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Antonio Radovcic

only a bad one.

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Geshan Manandhar

That is also true to an extent.

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Vincent Quigley • Edited

Yeah there's no absolute definition. I believe my experience was the extreme services company where you are not valuable if you are not billable to a customer. Put me off services companies for a long time. Still won't go back.

Mature product companies are more about stained development paces and long term maintainability.

Start up companies regardless of the sector are a different story. Just buckle up for the ride.

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rhymes

Stay away from body rentals :D