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> I have also seen one or two contractors effectively doing 80% of all the relevant work in a 15 man team. Major incident? Contractors in the warroom. Coming up

by tasuki 2y ago

> I have also seen one or two contractors effectively doing 80% of all the relevant work in a 15 man team. Major incident? Contractors in the warroom. Coming up with a new architecture? Contractors. etc. etc. I have also seen the opposite (as one of the contractors): the employees knew their system well, while the contractors were really missing all the intricacies of the architecture. It would take five years to learn, and contractors wouldn't stick for that long.

mvdwoord 2y ago
Most definitely, like I also mentioned. Actually at my current gig there is one engineer in the networking who is basically the load bearing wall of the department. Internal, will never even think about going external (or ask for a raise even...). One of my old managers always kept roughly 70-30 fixed/temp in his department, just for the scaling down quickly options, as well as occasionally pushing the contractors for the slightly shittier tasks every now and then. I have had two 5-7 year streaks now as a contractor with a large institution, at which point something funny happens, the internals on large struggling projects tend to move on to greener pastures, and it comes to me and a couple of other externals to keep things moving and effectively trade some extra money for the lack of inspiration at work. Lastly, sometimes, managers simply have a job which is a 200-300k a year job, but due to the HR policies, the position has a salary cap of e.g. 75k. Bringing in an external means they are able to spend more, and get more experience / higher quality people onboard. In any case, the market is open, so anyone who thinks that the contractors are unfairly advantaged, either put in your resignation and go for it, or enjoy your stability but accept the deal you made. Corporate does not owe you anything, and certainly not rationality in what they do ;)

by tasuki 2y ago

mvdwoord 2y ago

Most definitely, like I also mentioned. Actually at my current gig there is one engineer in the networking who is basically the load bearing wall of the department. Internal, will never even think about going external (or ask for a raise even...). One of my old managers always kept roughly 70-30 fixed/temp in his department, just for the scaling down quickly options, as well as occasionally pushing the contractors for the slightly shittier tasks every now and then. I have had two 5-7 year streaks now as a contractor with a large institution, at which point something funny happens, the internals on large struggling projects tend to move on to greener pastures, and it comes to me and a couple of other externals to keep things moving and effectively trade some extra money for the lack of inspiration at work. Lastly, sometimes, managers simply have a job which is a 200-300k a year job, but due to the HR policies, the position has a salary cap of e.g. 75k. Bringing in an external means they are able to spend more, and get more experience / higher quality people onboard. In any case, the market is open, so anyone who thinks that the contractors are unfairly advantaged, either put in your resignation and go for it, or enjoy your stability but accept the deal you made. Corporate does not owe you anything, and certainly not rationality in what they do ;)