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I thought the way it usually works is that the leader of the group gets hired as CTO somewhere, and then brings the rest of the team with him as subordinates?

• kls 12y ago
  Yes this has been a pattern we have seen as well, but as the market has shifted away from employees and more towards contract based employment we have seen that dynamic shift some. Also as we have focused on being a distributed team we have seen more contract based work. That is the piece we are all missing is a longer term relationship with a company that we are more of a permanent fixture with.
  • fsk 12y ago
    My employer has one contracting firm where they are the primary client. They bought a 3rd party software package. It was poorly written and they couldn't figure out how to get it to work. They looked at the comments in the code, saw the author's name, hired him has a consultant, and he was able to get it to work. He has a good strategy for maximizing his team's job security. Use a heavily obfuscated style, so now your client is dependent on you to keep their business running. I can just barely maintain his code (I.e., it takes me a day to do something that would take 15 minutes if it was written cleanly.).