[LRUG] Do you think anyone would pay for...

Daniel Tenner daniel.ruby at tenner.org
Mon May 12 03:52:14 PDT 2008


Hia,

Out of curiosity, what do potential employers point out as "scary"  
when they tell you you're overqualified?

Daniel

On 8 May 2008, at 15:438 May 2008, Eleanor McHugh wrote:

> a consultant to come in and tidy up a Ruby and/or Rails codebase:  
> introduce/enforce naming conventions; increase code legibility;  
> performance tuning and optimisation; etc.?
>
> I ask for the simple reason that three months of looking for a  
> permanent Rails role have left me with the distinct impression that  
> my reputation scares the living daylights out of many of those who  
> interview me, and the rest don't think they have any sufficiently  
> senior roles to offer! I seriously doubt I'm too good to work for  
> other people and would love someone to prove me right in this, but  
> just in case I'm considering a return to consultancy ;)
>
> Also if anyone knows of a funded startup looking for either a  
> Technical Architect or CTO who can code as well I'd be very  
> interested in hearing from you. Anything to relieve the monotony of  
> a long hot summer (air conditioning a must lol).
>
>
> Ellie
>
> Being and Doing are merely useful abstractions for the time- 
> dependent asymmetry of phase space.
>
>
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