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Literally same tasks, same teams. One person has a Googley badge one has a red badge. One gets various Googley perks, one doesn’t. One is treated with the four

• Ferret7446 3y ago
  You've listed quite a lot of actual differences. I don't think working on the same tasks makes a vendor into an employee.
• Manuel_D 3y ago
  Again, is there anything evidence for this happening besides "people on HN say so"? The New York Times wrote a piece on Google's contractors, and the closest it comes to making this claim is writing that they "sometimes work side by side" with full time employees. That's not even close to saying they're doing the same job, though. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-workers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-wo...