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He do give his Google Voice number, it's literally a phone number. He said that he is more comfortable with that because he can turn off the number whenever he
by dwild 13y ago
He do give his Google Voice number, it's literally a phone number. He said that he is more comfortable with that because he can turn off the number whenever he want. This is exactly what another cellphone would do.
- jiggy2011 13y agoA google voice number would feel less "concrete" to me, since it's tied to a google account rather than a physical sim card/phone.
- patio11 13y agoDo you routinely exercise purchasing authority on $20k consulting engagements? If you do, your preferences are anecdotal evidence of the business practices of one client firm. If you don't...
- jiggy2011 13y agoNot personally, but I have worked with people who do. There is always some measure of due diligence performed where "this guy only has a google voice number" would be unlikely to pass.
- jbail 13y agoHow do they perform this due diligence? Is there a way to tell if a number is a Google Voice number? This seems like an insane way to vet potential developers, by the way. Someone who bases a hiring decision on what brand of phone service your employee/contractor has chosen is probably not looking at the right metrics.
- jiggy2011 13y agoI haven't used google voice, but since the article mentioned that the client was not satisfied with a google voice number I assumed they must have had some way of knowing. You can take all sorts of little clues from these kinds of things. For example if a website is phrased and designed to look corporate but the only number published is a mobile and the email address ends in @hotmail.com then you know you might be dealing with a single freelancer.
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- isleyaardvark 13y agoHow would you know?
- mikeash 13y agoAnd furthermore, since numbers can be ported around to different providers, how would you continue to know? I have a Google Voice number that used to belong to a real actual cell phone.