Hey all, I recently received an offer from Amgen to work a contract role for 6 months. Its a 6 month to hire role and the hourly rate they offered is $94 an hour... Thats pretty insane if you ask me. But Im worreid about them not extending the offer after the contract ends I had a friend who did contract work for Viasat and they told him the same thing as far as it being a 6 month to hire. He told me the company wasnt doing so hot and did some layoffs. Then at the end of his contract they offered to sign him on again for another year instead of hiring him full time... In which he declined to work on a contract position again. His pay wasnt nearly as good so he told me the fact Amgen is offering me a rate that high is really promising. I have a full time offer as a Solutions engineer I am declining for this contract role at Amgen as Id rather work as a software engineer. Im just afraid that at the end of the 6 month contract I wont get an offer full time... Any advice or past experiences anyone might have would certainly be helpful. If anyone knows anything about past Amgen contract to hires please feel free to comment below.
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Don’t decline a fte for a contract
Why not? Im not really sure what I should do. I feel like the role title of working as a software engineer looks better than taking on a solutions engineer position and it will help me scale and grow my career in a better direction
Up to you, if I was you I would research both companies and proceed. I wouldn’t trade the stability of a fte for contract. You can hedge your fte offer with Amgen to give you a firmer promise of eventually converting you or bring you in fte from day 1