Book review: The Nomadic Developer

This was one of the books I’ve read while I was on vacations. It’s really an interesting book which gives you several valuable advices that you should follow if you intend to work as a consultant. It starts by giving you several clues on how to identify the firms you’re interviewing for so that you don’t end up working in a bad place. To help you know the company you’re interviewing for, there’s a chapter with a list of questions that you should ask. These questions cover different areas and should give you a really good idea about the way that company works.

After that it goes into explaining how consulting firms work so that you can have a good understanding of why things happen the way they do. As I said, there’s lots of advices on what you should and shouldn’t do to thrive as a consultant.

If you know me, you know that I’m not a consultant (at least, not yet! I guess I need to try it in the future to see how I get along :)). However, I did find lots of value in the recommendations that the author has made along the book: I’d say that most of it (if not all) does apply to your work as an employee too (especially the advice on what you should and shouldn’t do at work). Final score: 8/10.