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| james_s:
--- Quote from: Gyro on November 20, 2021, 10:34:45 pm ---Contractors are normally not highly regarded by permanent staff. They get paid more (of course not getting paid holiday and other benefits), and have no long term accountability - no career progression and performance reviews, the only sanction for a bad contractor is to terminate their contract. You wouldn't make a contractor a 'design authority' because they aren't permanent employees cannot take accountability on behalf of the company. --- End quote --- I was a contractor for much of the first decade of my career. The company may pay more for them but that overhead is taken by the contract agency. I have seen a lot of places where contractors are treated like second class citizens, some of that was fallout from the group of contractors that sued Microsoft back in the early 2000's, after that they made sure not to treat contractors like FTEs. Having experienced that during that time in my career I've always made a point since then to treat contractors I've worked with at the places that use them like any other employee. |
| JPortici:
--- Quote from: Bud on November 21, 2021, 12:01:46 am --- --- Quote from: Gyro on November 20, 2021, 11:02:45 pm ---A decent company's final interview process should take around half a day, on site - --- End quote --- You guys down there in EU must be living in a fantasy land. --- End quote --- I get told that there are companies that make you do 3-4 interviews before even talking to someone else than the recruiter.. even for jobs like cashier or sweeping floors. That is truly ridiculous |
| Bud:
Those companies must have too much free time on hand to spend on each applicant. Let alone half a day on one interview - unless it was the Coca-Cola president hiring a VP of Operations . |
| Bud:
--- Quote from: james_s on November 21, 2021, 05:28:09 am ---Did they give you an exit interview? Those are common here, --- End quote --- Gee... never heard of it here in Canuck Land. Here the employer is just happy to get rid of you asap and some even give you an escort (no, not that type) to the door to make sure you do not stick around for much longer. |
| james_s:
It used to be a FTE interview at Microsoft was an all day thing with lunch provided, I don't know if that's still the case. Where I am now our interviews are typically 3 hours consisting of 3 different sets of people. Occasionally someone will be brought back in for a followup hour long session if we are on the fence for one reason or another. Multiple days as a normal thing sounds painful. |
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