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Author here. Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different. These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business school class and I think the differences between these two types of roles have a big impact on what the job is like, even if doing the same type of work. It's a bit confusing because it overlaps with 'staff software engineer' term. I recal…
And of course, it has to depend on whether you aspire to climb the ladder and effectively change your job and responsibilities, or if you prefer to stick with (in the case of software development) the technology and advance in that direction.
I guarantee you at Duke Energy the contractors are second-class citizens, are laid off first and each and every one of them will take FTE at Duke the first chance they get.
Author here. Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different. These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business school class and I think the differences between these two types of roles have a big impact on what the job is like, even if doing the same type of work. It's a bit confusing because it overlaps with 'staff software engineer' term. I recal…
Jokingly you could probably split this into engineers that use xml vs those that use json. I've worked in both types of companies.
Author here. Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different. These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business school class and I think the differences between these two types of roles have a big impact on what the job is like, even if doing the same type of work. It's a bit confusing because it overlaps with 'staff software engineer' term. I recal…
At one place I worked full-time, the time-tracking software explicitly had a checkbox, "billable", which meant this time can be directly billed to clients , and you were expected to be able to check that for some specific percentage of your working day. A marketing company. It was annoying and onerous, quite like the company itself, come to think about it. These days, as a freelancer, everything I do is "line", in th…
The percentage I'm expected to bill to clients is 100%, 8hrs a day. We are even expected to make up time spent on non-billable things like company or department meetings. Definitely wears on you for sure.
I guarantee you at Duke Energy the contractors are second-class citizens, are laid off first and each and every one of them will take FTE at Duke the first chance they get.
I've worked in places where the contractors make about double, and those where it's the FTEs that make double. You really want to get a good idea of how the organization looks before you join there, because really, both kinds exist, and you don't want to be in the wrong group.
Author here. Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different. These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business school class and I think the differences between these two types of roles have a big impact on what the job is like, even if doing the same type of work. It's a bit confusing because it overlaps with 'staff software engineer' term. I recal…
I had not heard the "Staff" designation before Google popularized it. I believe in early 2000s, the popular job prefixes were "Senior" and "Principal". The "Staff" prefix always confused me and gave me a feeling that if layoff ever came "Staff" will be protected while everyone else was expendable. I don't think Google adopted this prefix in the sense it was popular in militery.