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I work at GDS - that sounds broken, can you let me know where that link to localhost is?

jamiegreen 10y ago
I love that someone from GDS is here in the comments and cares enough to follow up on something like this. You guys do a great job. I hope this attitude exists across government departments!
- toyg 10y ago
  I'm just back from this year's PyCon UK. There were quite a few GDS people there, they've attended for several years now in increasing numbers. All good geeks doing good work (and recruiting!).
  - OJFord 10y ago
    > and recruiting! When I looked previously it seemed the department was hiring only for short-term contracts? Which worries me a bit if that's the case - I think it's fantastic what and how they're doing it, but not if the philosophy is "ship it and forget".
    - robin_reala 10y ago
      Nope, go to https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/ https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/ and put Government Digital Service into the organisation field. We’re currently recruiting developers / senior developers and web ops. No pure front-end developers at the moment though. Re short term contracts, we hire for two year contracts but it’s not explained well that it’s trivial to extend those. We’re also trying to make roles permanent as well in general.
      - nikon 10y ago
        do you hire contractors, too?
        robin_reala 10y ago
        We do, although that doesn’t go through a central system and is on a team by team basis. If you’re interested get hold of me on Twitter and I’ll see if I can point you in the right direction.
OJFord 10y ago
Yes it does :) Awesome to see a reply here - I wondered but wasn't hopeful. It appeared in the beta feedback bar across the top, after completing a rebate (requiring adding a new address, if relevant to the flow) - it then said something like "processing request, will be transferred to your bank in 2-3 days" and had the top orange bar "this personal tax site is in beta, give us your feedback here" or similar. Clicking the feedback link from that page redirected to `localhost:<port>/correct/uri/to/feedback`. After exploring the site some more, I tried the feedback link again (different page) and it worked fine. If memory serves, the port was `3157` - I'm not totally sure, but it may help your search. Just to be clear - the feedback I wanted to leave was wholly positive! Cheers :)
- robin_reala 10y ago
  I’m asking around, suspect it’s an HMRC thing but I’ll pass it on if it is. Thanks for the report!

I love that someone from GDS is here in the comments and cares enough to follow up on something like this. You guys do a great job. I hope this attitude exists across government departments!

toyg 10y ago
I'm just back from this year's PyCon UK. There were quite a few GDS people there, they've attended for several years now in increasing numbers. All good geeks doing good work (and recruiting!).
- OJFord 10y ago
  > and recruiting! When I looked previously it seemed the department was hiring only for short-term contracts? Which worries me a bit if that's the case - I think it's fantastic what and how they're doing it, but not if the philosophy is "ship it and forget".
  - robin_reala 10y ago
    Nope, go to https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/ https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/ and put Government Digital Service into the organisation field. We’re currently recruiting developers / senior developers and web ops. No pure front-end developers at the moment though. Re short term contracts, we hire for two year contracts but it’s not explained well that it’s trivial to extend those. We’re also trying to make roles permanent as well in general.
    - nikon 10y ago
      do you hire contractors, too?
      - robin_reala 10y ago
        We do, although that doesn’t go through a central system and is on a team by team basis. If you’re interested get hold of me on Twitter and I’ll see if I can point you in the right direction.

OJFord 10y ago

Yes it does :) Awesome to see a reply here - I wondered but wasn't hopeful. It appeared in the beta feedback bar across the top, after completing a rebate (requiring adding a new address, if relevant to the flow) - it then said something like "processing request, will be transferred to your bank in 2-3 days" and had the top orange bar "this personal tax site is in beta, give us your feedback here" or similar. Clicking the feedback link from that page redirected to `localhost:<port>/correct/uri/to/feedback`. After exploring the site some more, I tried the feedback link again (different page) and it worked fine. If memory serves, the port was `3157` - I'm not totally sure, but it may help your search. Just to be clear - the feedback I wanted to leave was wholly positive! Cheers :)

robin_reala 10y ago
I’m asking around, suspect it’s an HMRC thing but I’ll pass it on if it is. Thanks for the report!