Be careful with this type of employment arrangements, though. A relatively big US company (over 6,000 employees) used a PEO (Professional Employment Organizati

Be careful with this type of employment arrangements, though. A relatively big US company (over 6,000 employees) used a PEO (Professional Employment Organization) years ago to hire me as a Senior Software Engineer. I worked there for 4.5 years, moving up the engineering ladder, as we normally do. Later, I interviewed at Apple, they extended an offer, which I accepted after a bit of negotiation. They started a background check and, unfortunately, I failed it because they found discrepancies between my résumé, the things I said during the interviews, and the employment contracts I submitted to HireRight (the company running the background check). During the interviews, I talked about all the things I did at Company (A) when in reality all legal documents and paystubs said that I was (supposedly) working for Company (B), which may be true depending on how you look at it. Obviously, I explained that Company (B) was simply an intermediary, and that all work I did was for Company (A). All references I provided from Company (A) come out clean, but Apple’s HR had already made up their minds about the background check, and that is how I lost a good job opportunity. Ever since, I have been very careful about how I communicate that part of my work experience.