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Contractors: Good to join if you are jobless, otherwise beware

Software Engineering Senior Analyst
Former Employee
Worked at Flipkart for 1 year
August 11, 2020
Bengaluru, Karnataka
4.0
Positive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Great place to work if you are a permanent employee. They have top-level facilities, perks, and a career path. Directors have great vision and are highly skilled individuals.

Cons

It also depends person by person and team by team. However, I am writing what I have faced in my team as a contractor.

Regarding work profile, at the time of before the interview, during the interview process, and in the initial days, you should be an expert in development, expert in SQL, Power BI, and Omniture, and have great analytical skillsets. They basically want developers and say, "We will do development."

After you are selected, you will be asked to do purely testing-related work, i.e., pull data from the database and perform data validation on a historical basis or for data coming from other sources, and investigate the root cause by testing different scenarios. There is no development work here for you. So, if you like this profile, then consider it a pro for you; else, if you object, you will be asked to leave the company.

Points I wrote in the pros section are not applicable for contractors.

Advice to Management

It would be better if the hiring manager conveys the exact message about the contract work profile to the third-party company.

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