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Curious, how are contractors affected by these layoffs? The article quotes the number of employees affected; does this number also include contractors? If not,
by thih9 4y ago
Curious, how are contractors affected by these layoffs?
The article quotes the number of employees affected; does this number also include contractors? If not, would contractors have it better? Or worse?
- ilyt 4y agoI'd imagine significantly worse, as usual
- oneoff786 4y agoI’m not so sure. It can be easier to pay for contractors for various budgeting reasons.
- rightbyte 4y agoNot necessarily. Google could be outsourcing and replacing FTEs with contractors to cut cost. Most body shops should be significantly cheaper than the internal FAANG wage folks and of you don't cheap out too much about as good. Remember the average tenure at Google is like what, two years? You lose almost nothing by going with contractors for two years instead.
- baner2022 4y agoIf cheap contractors can do the job then the fang employee hire must have been a scam by the management
- rightbyte 4y agoIt most certainly is. Cheaper, not cheap, is the keyword. Google programmer staff is way too big to be any sort of elite. They are not a 1 in 100 programmer. Maybe the 60 percentile or whatever at their scale. Since the stereotypical silly good programmer skill is negatively correlated with social skills it would not surprise me at all if the median Google employee is even below median due to their recruiting process. I.e. their recruiting is worse than dice rolls.