Vantaggi
-Great industry saturation, opportunity to work with some great companies.
-Good network of packaging engineers.
-Decent name recognition, especially in New England, Bay Area, and Chicago.
Svantaggi
These are all based solely on my experience. Part of a contract company is your experience is heavily based on where you are placed. I will try to focus this on Adept and not my client.
-Limited access to managers. This is challenging if you are less than 10 years experienced and used to technical oversight.
-The pay is 1099. This is fine if you are a independent consultant, but i was a dedicated resource to one client.
-Doesn't honor their contracts. I was let go the day I gave my 2 weeks notice even though the contract promised a 2 week break on both sides. I was very surprised by this. I had just turned down a full time extension the week before so the release had nothing to do with my performance.
-Not super transparent. I had a weird scenario where they where billing the client a flat amount of hours per week and paying me the variable hours i was billed and keeping the difference. Every other contract company i have worked for charged the client exactly what I billed.