Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job

Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by eatYourFood on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:16PM (#29632207)

And the clients aren’t to blame? Some will force waterfall on you then change their minds on requirements, am I a charity that just gives work away for free when they change their mind?

Many large companies absolutely refuse agile delivery and require fixed scope and cost to get anything done.

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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by wpietri on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:39AM (#29639061)

How quickly we go from, "Clients should pay for value" to "fuck the clients, they deserve to get cheated".

Yes, waterfall is a bad choice. But no, clients aren't to blame for trusting a vendor to do right by them.

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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by eatYourFood on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:24PM (#29641665)

> "fuck the clients, they deserve to get cheated".

Why use quotation marks for something I didn't say? Nothing I've said means "fuck the clients" unless you are maliciously taking the worst possible interpretation.

A change that takes a massive amount of time and effort isn't something I should do for free.

I'm more than happy to build a backlog, refine it, and build until there's a RC... so few enterprise clients want to subscribe to the perceived risk, they'd rather spend months specifying everything upfront to make some senior person happy whether that delivery methodology has been proven to work or not.

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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by wpietri on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @02:42PM (#29654061)

Yes, I was paraphrasing. We both know you didn't say those exact words, so I thought you'd figure it out. Hopefully now you can.

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