I’m currently a contractor at Alphabet and all I gotta say is the way contractors are treated vs FTEs is absolute garbage. We output the same amount of work as a regular FTE and it’s such bs Google won’t event give us high performance machines. The laptop they gave me is a shitty ThinkPad. This thing is insanely slow and freezes up when I have more than 6 tabs open. Not only that, I don’t even have access to the same tools/software that FTEs use. They have me rely on a ton of spread sheets that updates once every few hours- yet they expect me to produce high quality accurate work? They also won’t even give me a work phone to communicate with my team. I have to rely on my laptop to communicate with my team or emails which is bizarre. I was a contractor at a data management company before this and they treated me as a FTE. Google however, treats us like second class.
In many ways they are legally required to treat you like shit because of past co-employment law suits.
Legally required to give you shitty work equipment
How can they expect motivation and productivity out of contractors then?
Have you tried bringing this up with your team at Google? Also, where's your TC?
Yes. They just use the “you don’t have access due to employment status” card TC is just my base which is at 115k
Most companies consider contractors as second class citizens. Use Google brand and find a full-time role.
In your resume, do you say you work at Google or you put the other company?
Technically, rules state vendors cannot list Google as their employer (have to list the contract company for Google) but lots of vendors ignore this
I put “Google (Contractor)”. The work I do is for Google. Not my talent agency. All my talent agency does is pay me.
Man if you think it's bad at Google, don't go over to Microsoft..."dash trash" was thrown around frequently when I was there.
Are you new in your career? This is common at every company, contractors and freelancers are not treated the same as FTE. You are usually only on temporary assignment.
Consider it as an investment and you can encash Google experience later on somewhere.
Not my experience at all at google. Mac book. Linux desktop. Cloud instance. Two huge monitors. Breakfast and lunch. Dinner if I stayed after 530 but never did, gym. The equipment depended on my manager so I asked and he immediately approved
Come join LinkedIn Sorry that you have to deal with Google.
Currently interviewing at Lucid Motors for a senior engineer role. Hope it works out 🙏🏼
Good luck, buddy. I’m rooting for you :)