Hiring is hard for many reasons. Even on relatively short contract gigs (let alone LT or FT / roles), IME what a given org thinks it needs and what's actually r

Hiring is hard for many reasons. Even on relatively short contract gigs (let alone LT or FT / roles), IME what a given org thinks it needs and what's actually required are often revealed to be quite different. To me it's not necessarily a red flag, rather a reflection of the complexity and uncertainties inherent in planning software projects. My consulting process incorporates an explicit "discovery" phase, largely for this reason.