Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist

Re:Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist by pessimizer on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:46PM (#8540725)

>Successful, scalable, revenue-generating software projects that compete in a big market, on the other hand, are never finished. Microsoft still has top engineers working on Excel and Windows. Google almost certainly has some of their best people incrementally improving Search and Maps and Gmail. Many of Amazon's top engineers are working on improving AWS. Apple's certainly not transferring their best engineers off iOS.

I'd suggest that products of this size and scope are an extreme minority of projects in general, that projects of the class you describe in your first paragraph are the norm, and an agent would help for those. Also, agents are good for renegotiation (and outside work, for that matter); David Letterman still has an agent. His agent negotiates his continuing to work on the same project, and monetizes his experience within that project as he accumulates it.

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Re:Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist by jiggy2011 on Friday October 31, 2014 @05:23PM (#8541204)

I would think the opposite, it's hard to think of a class of software where a project could ever be described as "done", even the most boring business applications have constant scope change as the nature of the business changes.

The only example I can think of might be a video game, but even this is becoming less the case.

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