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Freelancers (i am one myself) often have a fear of binding themselves to a single company for a longer period of time. This can be good or bad. When i got inter

by kayoone 13y ago

Freelancers (i am one myself) often have a fear of binding themselves to a single company for a longer period of time. This can be good or bad. When i got interviewed by a top european startup their HR thinking was like "Freelancers are more risky, because they might get bored quite fast and leave". Thats true to some extent, on the other hand i personally like the idea to really go deep on a project for 2-3 years instead of jumping from project to project. In your specific case i wonder: - Would this be a project that you would want to work on for next couple of years even if it doesn't take off immediately ? - why did the other programmer leave if the company seems to be so well off ? - how good is the salary really ? If they had money, wouldn't they find good people in Hamburg quite easily ?

mweser 13y ago
To your first question: I had the exact situation with one of my former clients. The product didn't take of but still, i support them and if changes have to be made on their product i am still the one who does it. I guess, i would treat this new customer the same. This is basicly one of the reasons that i cannot assure more than 3 days - i sometimes want / need to work for my previous customers. Second: my feeling is that there was nothing bad going on and the reason that he left is that he had to travel 2h twice every day. But i certainly will check that. Third: I don't like to compare salaries but i think it is beyond avarage in this town. The problem is, that Hamburg is not quite the tech city, it is really hard to find good devs here.
- kayoone 13y ago
  hm sure? I believe Hamburg is probably one of the biggest places for startups in germany behind Berlin and i personally know quite a few awesome devs from HH. More web/mobile orientated though, you seem to be more into .NET based stuff.

by kayoone 13y ago

mweser 13y ago

To your first question: I had the exact situation with one of my former clients. The product didn't take of but still, i support them and if changes have to be made on their product i am still the one who does it. I guess, i would treat this new customer the same. This is basicly one of the reasons that i cannot assure more than 3 days - i sometimes want / need to work for my previous customers. Second: my feeling is that there was nothing bad going on and the reason that he left is that he had to travel 2h twice every day. But i certainly will check that. Third: I don't like to compare salaries but i think it is beyond avarage in this town. The problem is, that Hamburg is not quite the tech city, it is really hard to find good devs here.

kayoone 13y ago
hm sure? I believe Hamburg is probably one of the biggest places for startups in germany behind Berlin and i personally know quite a few awesome devs from HH. More web/mobile orientated though, you seem to be more into .NET based stuff.