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Discussion on: Those of you who've worked as a contractor and as a full-time employee, which did you prefer?

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Doug Schwartz

Employees are treated better and have more say. Contracting lets you bail afterwards without having to burn any bridges.

I contracted as a programmer-writer for over 20 years (mostly doing C# at Microsoft) before I spent 6 years at AWS (Ruby, Go, .NET, Rust SDK docs), which I loved.

Like almost any gig/job, it's the people, especially the manager, who makes the real difference. I've gone from a great gig/job to an awful one simply by a manager change. The converse is also true.