Re:How I survived being a $220k/year intern
by traitsnspecs on Sunday March 08, 2020 @05:42PM
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The interesting thing to me is that they had an open-source support business getting requests to buy their services, which the salesmen dropped because it wasn't the most lucrative deal they could be doing. But presumably there's a viable business in that particular type of support.
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Re:How I survived being a $220k/year intern
by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday March 08, 2020 @06:00PM
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In my experience, those kinds of support contracts are mostly valuable (and mostly intended to be valuable) as a way to shove your foot in the door at large companies. Often they're not valued at all, and exist just as a legacy from when the company was younger and any sale was a good sale. It's not surprising to me that an incoming lead whose first question is "what are your prices" would be considered a waste of time.