Hi. A contracting firm reached out to me today. Asking to get me in for $75/hour at Apple Cupertino for HW System Eng role. I have 12 YOE in HWE +PhD. Can you guys believe? Apple dropping the bar for pay and hunting talent for cheap pay? Qualcomm way? I know they pay very well for regular employees. Also why should anyone leave full time job for such a pay and contract! Apple please do not damage your reputation.
I got approached so many times by these firms dont stress just ignore
Do they pay you in iTunes cards?
LOL dude chill out. Random contracting firms reach out to me every week with much lesser offers
Yeah. But I cannot believe Apple @ FANG is after this!
That doesn't mean anything. Saving on expenses is a legit way to improve net income. Companies would have almost everyone as contractors if that was feasible.
Yeah. But Apple was famous on good pay. Now this. Doesn't make sense. Unless we are unemployed already. Who wants to be contractor? Cannot attract talent like that.
They will end up hiring cheap Indians
Ironically, these contracting middle man firms have all Indian recruiters. My bad i made a profile on Dice long time ago.
Yep, They offer them $50-70, no benefits and charge Apple twice more. Not sure what are the benefits for the company, besides to kick out contractors much easier than FTE employees.
Apple has been hiring massive amounts of Indian contractors for ages, like the rest of FANG.
So its not for US Citizens? Or they play with them to justify the visa?
My friend dropped out of college and Walmart labs pays him 67.50$ an hour for entry level react development as a contractor. That pay seems low for phd and 8yoe
Yeah. Why would Apple need middle man (the scavenger contractor firms) to get contractors? Can't they find people who would contract for them directly?
Way too low, your hourly rate should be double that
apple might be paying those firms $200 per hour they are just lowballing you to keep major chunk of the pay with them
Well they don’t have any other benefits (insurance, blah blah)