Enterprise to IT Service\Software Company
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@scottalanmiller i sent you a message with the company website to see what your thoughts are
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@randyblevins said in Enterprise to IT Service\Software Company:
@scottalanmiller said in Enterprise to IT Service\Software Company:
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@scottalanmiller said in Enterprise to IT Service\Software Company:
@randyblevins said in Enterprise to IT Service\Software Company:
@scottalanmiller said in Enterprise to IT Service\Software Company:
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@jaredbusch said in Enterprise to IT Service\Software Company:
Epicorp makes a product called Profit 21. It has a good size market deployment both on site and hosted by Epicorp.
But it is a legacy design LoB app. It is clunky to use and expensive to license simply because it requires all Microsoft licensing. Server, RDS CALs, User CALs, SQL Server, SQL CALs.
And makes even them, at a decent size, a huge risk if that was their only product. Because a competitor could come along, recreate something for their market using modern tools and methods, charge more and still be chaper by not making half of the cost go to a third party!
Yeah, that is my concern is that the company is a one trick pony. It seems like it's probably not a good idea to jump ship for something like this?
I guess these companies come and go pretty often. I'm not sure on exact company size. I'm looking at their LinkedIn and basing it off that.
I guess I should probably still interview for practice and see what the company looks like.
It can be, you just have to be really careful and make sure that it fits your life goals. SMBs come and go every day. They have no longevity.
What questions would you ask in the interview about the company?
That's tough because companies lie continuously in these things. They'll say anything to make themselves sound good. But ask about the processes used, technologies used, ask them to explain some of their decision processes, ask about what makes them competitive both in tech and in operations, really grill them on their business model, funding, history, ownership, future goals, etc.
So generally speaking 20% increase in salary actually isn't much considering the risk? A company that size would likely have to offer 50% higher than industry standard to get good people based on risk of the company size?
Exactly. We don't know much about them so can't speak to this one. But Cali startups, for example, often pay $300K for skills you could get for $200K in NYC if you were a bank. Stability, long term viability, low stress, big teams, big benefits... they are worth a lot.
So approximately 50% in this case.
Yes, but some percentage of that is extra for making people live in San Fran which is total crap.
