[Gllug] how reliable is netcraft?

[John Levin]

On 05/12/2011 12:39, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 12:02 +0000, Simon Wilcox wrote:
>> I'd also second what Shannon said, as a hiring manager I don't want to
>> be told what we're doing wrong, unless I specifically ask. We probably
>> have a pretty good idea ourselves and you don't know the reasons why
>> it's an old version.
>
> A useful caveat to this is that as a candidate you should always
> remember that you are interviewing the company as much as they you and
> if you can see that something they are doing is giving rise to a
> significant risk - ie if the version of the CMS they are running is
> known to be vulnerable to security bugs - how they react to you
> mentioning it may be a good indicator.
>
> Of course you need to determine first whether it would be appropriate to
> do so. An interview with someone who is not part of the team
> specifically managing the website would not be the right place to do so.
>


Thanks to everyone who replied, and the good advice from all of you. 
Won't be raising it at the interview; if I get the post I'll see how the 
land lies.

Many thanks to you all,

John
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