Got a surprisingly earnest warning from a hiring manager /u/DowntownAd86 CSCQ protests reddit

So I’ve applied to a senior engineering role. It’s not exactly my trajectory but I liked the recruiters style, and I’m not opposed to going through the motions.

Do the interview and the hiring manager tells me he doesn’t think it will work. They can hire me on as a contractor for 6 months at the rate (70/hr) but wouldn’t be able to transition me to full time because my resume would trigger their HR people.

And he’s right. I’ve been doing engineering for 4ish years, and the 15 years of tech work before have been useful but don’t really mesh with how they define senior engineers at his company.

So in all I’m pretty grateful. He says he’ll go to bat and argue why an exception makes sense. But he could have said nothing. Brought me on to contract for 6 months then just shrugged when HR denied a full time offer.

Left a pretty good impression to me, that he’d go out of his way to warn me instead of preying on it.

So I’ve applied to a senior engineering role. It’s not exactly my trajectory but I liked the recruiters style, and I’m not opposed to going through the motions.

Do the interview and the hiring manager tells me he doesn’t think it will work. They can hire me on as a contractor for 6 months at the rate (70/hr) but wouldn’t be able to transition me to full time because my resume would trigger their HR people.

And he’s right. I’ve been doing engineering for 4ish years, and the 15 years of tech work before have been useful but don’t really mesh with how they define senior engineers at his company.

So in all I’m pretty grateful. He says he’ll go to bat and argue why an exception makes sense. But he could have said nothing. Brought me on to contract for 6 months then just shrugged when HR denied a full time offer.

Left a pretty good impression to me, that he’d go out of his way to warn me instead of preying on it.