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It would be interesting to know the ratio of employee/contractors working as FTE (very common somewhere else) among software engineers.
by Manjuuu 7y ago
It would be interesting to know the ratio of employee/contractors working as FTE (very common somewhere else) among software engineers.
- jsty 7y agoI guess it would depend quite heavily on location - particularly re. tax and employment regulation. For example, in London, a lot of the good people historically went the contracting route due to much higher rates and lower taxes. Big banks were (and are) staffed with a lot of contractors who were very happy not to be on payroll.
- dcl 7y agoSame with contractors working for banks in Australia.
- baud147258 7y agoIt was the same thing in Fintech in Paris when I was working there a few years ago.
- baud147258 7y agoI was working as an intern in a team developing a tool for the traders, there was two FTE, the boss and one senior dev; the rest (5 devs) were all consultants, all independents
- Spooky23 7y agoDepends on project work vs. ops. Big institutions will hire an army of contractors to complete the task. In one case I was in, the project had about 350 people, probably 75% contractor. At the midpoint of the project (year 2/5) they started attrition of contractors, and landed at around 100 people (10-15% contractor) at the end. Why? It’s hard to hire at the levels you need and then get rid of them in a big company.
- CydeWeys 7y agoIt may vary by team, but I've never seen a contracted out SWE, SRE, or any other highly technical position -- unless you want to count the web developer employees of design agencies who are contracted to make one-off marketing websites (i.e. not core products), but their jobs seem pretty cushy. They don't even come onsite anyway.