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It is not engineers who are undercutting each other. It is the staffing companies, who I call as pimps. They are doing much damage to the contract rates. There
by raincom 12y ago
It is not engineers who are undercutting each other. It is the staffing companies, who I call as pimps. They are doing much damage to the contract rates. There is another thing going on: kickbacks to managers from staffing companies.
- curiously 12y agoyes you are correct thats why i fucking ignore if someone contacts me on linked and he's a recruiter. I tell fuck you. here, buy my software instead.
- rbanffy 12y agoA better approach is to just name your price, adjusted for the benefits you will have to pay out of your pocket. In Brazil, my contractor rate is about twice my full-time employee rate to account for all benefits I'll have to pay on my own and the reduced income taxes I'll pay.
- Iftheshoefits 12y agoEngineers undercut each other all the time, implicitly, by going for the "do what you love and be paid for it!" nonsense companies throw, by feverishly working on unsupported open source projects for notoriety or to participate in the new culture of "github profile required or we won't consider you," and other ways I'm not listing here. Those recruiters wouldn't be able to do what they do without at least some tacit approval or participation of labor.