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4.0 No better place for Microsoft centric developers posted by ericksoa on December 12, 2006

There are literally thousands of companies in the IT services space that claim to be "great places to work that take care of their people". Magenic is one of the few that lives up to the promise. The following are specific ways Magenic accomplishes this:

* True project based work. The mix of staff aug to project work at Magenic leans heavily towards project based work. This gives Magenic more control over the project, leading to a greater chance of a successful outcome. This tide of success "lifts all boats" - so to speak - including the reputation and brand of the developers who work on said projects.
* Focused strategy. Magenic does the Microsoft platform. Thats it. This means that you wont be asked to work on PHP one month, Cobol the next month.
* True internal knowledge sharing. The internal tech lists form a knowledge sharing platform unmatched by other firms. By making it simple and email based, usage is encouraged. While you might be stuck on a problem for hours working for another company, at Magenic, you just send the question to the appropriate internal tech list, and you get very good answers - sometimes in minutes.
* Focus on the developer - Magenic has a position of Consulting Manager - whose job description is "keep the consultants happy". Seriously. What other companies do anything that compares?
* High bar to entry - Magenic hires very good .NET professionals. You can have faith that your co-workers are on the same level you are if you are here.
* Reasonable travel requirements - While travel is sometimes required for some clients - Magenic does a great job matching your desired level of travel to the actual amount of travel that you do.
* Great Reputation - If nothing else, having Magenic on your resume is a great door opener to speaking and authoring opportunities that simply dont exist at other companies.

All in all, as a consultant here myself - who has worked at lesser companies, I highly recommend considering Magenic in your career plans.

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    development process

    clear requirements 4.0
    design and planning 4.0
    quality assurance 4.0
    automated testing 3.0
    peer review 4.0
    development environment 3.0
    development hardware 4.0
    physical workspace 4.0
    infrastructure and support 4.0
    issue tracking 4.0
    source control 4.0
    product quality unrated

    culture

    cultivation of creativity 4.0
    mitigation of risk 2.0
    reasonable workload 4.0
    prevention of crunch time 4.0
    hitting deadlines unrated
    taking responsibility 4.0
    development autonomy 4.0
    keeping ego in check 4.0

    compensation

    salary 4.0
    health coverage 3.0
    paid time off 4.0
    snacks 4.0
    other perks 4.0

    organization

    advancement opportunities 4.0
    employee retention 3.0
    hiring process 4.0
    quality of development management 4.0
    quality of upper management 4.0
    quality of developers 4.0
    team-to-team communication 4.0
    internal team communication 4.0
    management-developer communication 4.0

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    location 4.0
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    business model 4.0
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    vision and strategy 4.0
    warm fuzzy feeling 4.0
    overall 4.0

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    use of BSD 1.0
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    use of Ruby 2.0
    use of Lisp 1.0
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    use of C# 4.0
    use of Objective-C 1.0
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    use of ASP 4.0
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