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Will never work as a contractor ever again for any FAANG companies

Recently joined a FAANG company as a contractor (still within my first month), I was initially happy at first because it would look nice on my resume. Onboarding was great too, then real dev work began, I ask for documentation to make sense of the “new” project we were doing but was told I have no access to it, fair enough, due to possible leak. Few weeks in, they gave me new tasks and I asked for some documentation to make it easier, still has no access, I was told to ask questions instead. Asked questions and the employee (full time employee of the FAANG company) I directly report to got angry and publicly shammed me on Slack for asking questions that should have been easy to understand, easy to understand if I had documentation to read. So I, rarely ask questions moving forward because it's either met with another…


Recently joined a FAANG company as a contractor (still within my first month), I was initially happy at first because it would look nice on my resume. Onboarding was great too, then real dev work began, I ask for documentation to make sense of the “new” project we were doing but was told I have no access to it, fair enough, due to possible leak. Few weeks in, they gave me new tasks and I asked for some documentation to make it easier, still has no access, I was told to ask questions instead. Asked questions and the employee (full time employee of the FAANG company) I directly report to got angry and publicly shammed me on Slack for asking questions that should have been easy to understand, easy to understand if I had documentation to read. So I, rarely ask questions moving forward because it's either met with another round of public shaming or it's never answered. I hand in my work and I was scolded because I didn't use this and that, and I was too slow on my deliverables, and was publicly shamed again on slack. Some of the contractors praised me because I fixed some the things that was supposed to be there but wasn't and was supposed to be their responsibility. I'm almost at a point of basically retaliating but also worried it my affect my other contractor colleagues. Now I'm just sending applications because this company has been given me literal headaches. I don't want to sacrifice my health over some company on my resume.

For a fucking trillion dollar company, this company sure does have some bad managers. FAANG is overrated especially if you are a contractor.

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