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Most of the article jives with how contractors are treated here in the Midwest. The upside is you don't have yearly goals, you're not held to the higher standar
by at-fates-hands 8y ago
Most of the article jives with how contractors are treated here in the Midwest. The upside is you don't have yearly goals, you're not held to the higher standards of the FTE's, you don't have to attend boring "all company" meetings.
The only thing which popped out at me was the lower pay. When I contracted, I didn't have benefits (I had them through a third party provider) so my hourly rate was based on a 15-20% bump because of that. At not time was I ever getting paid less than my FTE counterparts when you took everything into consideration.
Having said this, is there a big pay gap between regular Google employees and contractors?
- CydeWeys 8y agoMost of these TVCs are kitchen staff, janitors, security guards, receptionists, call center employees, etc. So to the extent that there is a pay gap, it's usually because of the difference in average pay for those jobs themselves. Actual contracted engineers are quite the rarity; I've never worked with one.
- lovich 8y agoThe large groups of contractors at tech firms like Google are usually doing work the company has identified as not their core business. Where companies used to have janitorial staff, or cooks, or other administrators, they now put all those relationships onto contracting firms so they don't have to provide the same quality of benefits as they do to their FTEs and also have a much easier time firing them en masse then they would if they were legal employees of the tech firm. As such, most of these people would be getting paid less than the software engineers if they were legal employees anyway, but they do lose out on benefits unless the contracting firm provides benefits on par with Google