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Companies want loyalty. Beeing good at what you do has almost no importance above a very basic level. Loyalty is important because they have all kind of interna
by GoToRO 7y ago
Companies want loyalty. Beeing good at what you do has almost no importance above a very basic level.
Loyalty is important because they have all kind of internal crap that is not documented, not organized and which you will accumulate if you stay with them 10+ years.
Also, beeing a consultant shows that you are independent, but what they want is conformism, people with no ideas of their own and so, not independent. 99% of companies fit this profile.
- theli0nheart 7y agoWhat you say is true, however, I think it's less about loyalty and more about risk mitigation. Companies don't want to take chances that the super-star programmer they just hired is a renegade cowboy. I get that. But no about of LeetCode prep will dissolve that preconception.
- codingslave 7y agoCompanies want leetcode, not loyalty
- muzani 7y agoWhile companies want loyalty and will incentivize loyalty, what's to say a former consultant isn't loyal? Consultants take huge pay cuts to work under a boss. They're more resilient to competing offers and won't jump for a 10% offer. They're often sick of being their own boss and are less likely to quit and do a startup. They're used to taking on massive stress, and sometimes even being the scapegoat for it So in some sense, ex consultants are better loyalty per skill level compared to many lifetime FTEs.
- GoToRO 7y agoThat's a nice insight but lets see who are the bosses that do the hiring in large companies? They are people that stayed in the same company for 10-15 years. What you wrote looks strange and even silly to them. Otherwise they would have become consultants themselves long time ago. Even if they aknowledge that you are indeed very good, their little ego will not let them hire you. To answer more directly to your comment, it doesn't matter that you are actually loyal if their perception is that you might not be. In fact they just don't know what to make of you. They never met somebody like you.
- muzani 7y agoYeah, that is probably true. Big companies tend to hire entire companies to outsource work to, even when those companies are less efficient than individuals. I did notice that all the corporate people have nearly zero mutual friends on Facebook, whereas with consultants and startup people there might have well over 100 mutual friends. It's quite an extreme.