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I guarantee you at Duke Energy the contractors are second-class citizens, are laid off first and each and every one of them will take FTE at Duke the first chan

• adamgordonbell 4y ago
  I think it depends. I suspect working at ThoughtWorks is hard, going from client to client, and losing contracts when the market doesn't look good, but also there is no Martin Fowler of Duke Energy.
• hibikir 4y ago
  That happens sometimes. But other times, HR has a lot of control over FTE salaries, and little over contractors, and they compare their salary structure to other energy companies, and therefore every FTE is drastically underpaid, and gets little to no stock compensation. So in practice, a senior contractor will earn far more. This means they have a lot of trouble converting FTEs. I've worked in places where the contractors make about double, and those where it's the FTEs that make double. You really want to get a good idea of how the organization looks before you join there, because really, both kinds exist, and you don't want to be in the wrong group.
• jawns 4y ago
  The primary distinction is whether they're hired directly by Duke as a contractor, versus whether they are employed by a consulting company that is contracted by Duke. If they are hired as an individual, definitely second-class citizen, and there have been legislative pushes to make a lot of these people classified as employees. If they are employed by a company that is contracted, chances are their situation is much more comfortable.
• the_only_law 4y ago
  > I guarantee you at Duke Energy the contractors are second-class citizens In fairness, I’d bet the full time devs are too.