This is a question that we get asked quite often – especially when candidates call on us for job interviews.
Our answer to this generally is: “Whatever it takes”
We, at ThinkingSpace, consider ourselves to be a product engineering company.
Most of the projects that we undertake – solve a specific problem. We do take up projects in which the specs are drafted out and we just have to implement the solution – but most of our major projects are for traditional businesses which we need to get a feel of first before proposing our solution. In such projects, the entire requirements gathering cycle to writing specs to choosing the technology is done by us.
Technology wise, in the past 3 years, we have dabbled and worked with a plethora of technologies.
C++, Java, Ruby on Rails, PHP, ASP.Net, C#, Visual Basic just to name a few.
However, this decision changes from project to project depending on what will best work for a particular project – given various requirements and constraints.
All of us being engineers, it generally does not matter which technology we build the system on as even newer technologies (or different ones) take a maximum of a week or two for someone to pick up.
It is true, that we have our own favourite stack (.Net) and we are awesome in it – but we’ve done plenty of work in many technologies to be able to say that we can pick up anything and run with it in a decent amount of time — and so should you if you aspire to work at here.
Hence, it is disheartening to see so many people factor technology as an important criteria in choosing the companies in which they want to work with.
In my opinion, it shouldn’t matter at all as the technology stack can very well change tomorrow – but what sticks is your concepts and engineering knowledge that makes it a cinch to move from technology to technology and platform to platform.
