There's a parallel story concerning the subset of government contractors that essentially exist as staffing agencies, with two differences: - The process for la

There's a parallel story concerning the subset of government contractors that essentially exist as staffing agencies, with two differences: - The process for landing a contract is opaque, favoring huge companies. - The government has no bottom line to maintain, contractor value-add is not easily quantified. So the big staffing agencies largely just "fill seats," and the individual contractor's growth potential is limited, because they realistically can't fill the seat any better on day 365 than they could on day one-- most "senior" positions are literally basis seniority and only seniority.