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Oddly enough this doesn't really resonate with me. I've done contracting for 5 years and 90% of the work was focused on new development with the opportunity to
by avenoir 9y ago
Oddly enough this doesn't really resonate with me. I've done contracting for 5 years and 90% of the work was focused on new development with the opportunity to get hired after the contract was up. Now this was a few years ago and my experience was strictly in the Midwest but I never saw myself as the bottom-feeder. If anything it was a good way to work at a company you liked where you didn't know anyone on the inside to recommend you. The experience was actually rather interesting and enjoyable.
- linkregister 9y agoI don't think the author of the article claims that all contractors are bottom feeders. Some of us have done this kind of work where we were intended to fix a set of bugs on a foreign code base. Whether or not the programmer is a contractor of FTE is not relevant, the experience of being a catfish programmer is.