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Anyone with FAANG / corporate tech perspective - is "Contractors are generally not the strongest technically" an actual thing? Or is just something recruiters s
by klik99 5y ago
Anyone with FAANG / corporate tech perspective - is "Contractors are generally not the strongest technically" an actual thing? Or is just something recruiters say to avoid saying the real reason for no?
In the games industry at least, some of the brightest folks go through a contracting phase - either to work on stuff they like more, to bootstrap their own project or just out of cynicism about the industry.
- mmcdermott 5y agoIt does tend to be a shorthand. Obviously, there is no reason that someone on a fixed-length contract would be intrinsically different than others. In the corporate line-of-business world, contractor often means staff augmentation and most staff augmentation firms are selling by volume, not quality.
- closeparen 5y agoWe hire FTE software engineers to be autonomous creative problem solvers and leaders. We hire contractors to be a pool of labor for clearly defined and menial tasks that would be a waste of FTE time.