Surprisingly, getting paid by the hour makes software development better, not worse

Five years ago, I needed to get out of my old job quick when they called everyone back to the office and I lived two hours of one-way commuting away. Just then, I received a job offer from a former colleague to join the dark side of consulting - an offer that I would not have even considered a week before or after. But at the time, it was a quick way out of what I had assumed would be a slow and…