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temp5565_65
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temp5565_65
5y ago
Ex-Accenture here. Software devs (at the grunt level at least) would almost never work for another client at the same time as your main client. I only ever met one person who worked for two clients simultaneously, and IIRC they were managem
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5y ago
As ex-Accenture, I can totally believe you. I was once on a project where a guy took more than a month to deliver a codebase that was negative in value - we spent more dev time untangling and cleaning up the utter cr*p that he produced than
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5y ago
> Its best to make sure every damn communication is documented with them in the mix. It surely wasn't everyone, but enough of their onsite people pulled stunts that I am very wary of them. I agree. Keeping a meticulous paper trail
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5y ago
Lots of mobile "games" are basically a casino, but the currency is time and you don't ever win anything. This is to the point that when I open older (pre-microtransaction) games on my PC, I'm momentarily disoriented beca
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5y ago
> It was seen as a resume starter before going back to MBA or other graduate programs. This was exactly my experience as an undergrad, and later graduate software dev. I'd venture that my skills were completely unsuited for the fir
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5y ago
Ex-Accenture dev here. The problem with Accenture teams back when I still worked there was that they had no middle ground with regards to team quality - you either got a team 50% made up of people that could (metaphorically) kill a dragon b
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5y ago
Ex-Accenture software dev here. I'll be honest, your experience as a dev is basically subject to an RNG. You could luck out and land on an amazing project, with an amazing client, and an amazing team. Sometimes the clients, or the team
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5y ago
LinkedIn is basically Stepford Smiler Central. There is no good argument to link back to a LinkedIn profile for dating purposes vs just saying the other person has a profile as an FYI.
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5y ago
The advantage is that the app is designed to work with specific obsolete devices that needed a now long-in-tooth software package to transfer files to them. It's very hard to get this package working on modern machines, so having this
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5y ago
I can second that. MDs created from lossless FLACs are very clean.
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5y ago
I'll start, in no particular order. * better battery life (supposedly up to 40 hours on a single AA, but I haven't benchmarked this independently) * consequentially from the above, your phone's battery is saved for when it _r