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IT Contractors, beware!

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at JPMorgan Chase for 1 year
June 20, 2019
Plano, Texas
2.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Very good team and project management. A fully agile development process with the staff to back it. I have to give credit where it's due.

Cons

Two months into a six-month contract, my manager cut it short to three months, citing project cancellations. For context, this happened in the Salesforce Merchant Services department. If you get a contract offer from anyone there, run away!

There's also a more general note: the IT workforce here in Plano is heavily international, which isn't a problem in and of itself but can make communication a bit hard at times.

Advice to Management

You're not going to keep getting quality contractors if you screw them over like this.

I very much appreciate the 5-week advanced termination notice, but it really doesn't leave a good impression overall.

Things like this are why employee loyalty is completely dead, when we realize it's a game of whoever can screw the other one over first, and trust is completely eliminated from the hiring process.

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