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Dear Fishes, I am switching for the ist time in my life in 8 years.Need guidance on which will be better in terms of wlb,job security and learning wise.offered compensation is nearly same in all 1.Harman(product) 2.Hitachi Vantara 3.Banking captives:-Deutsche,UBS, HSBC Yoe:8 Techstack: java,Microservices,Devops,AWS,Azure Harman Harman Connected Services Hitachi Vantara Deutsche Bank UBS EY Deloitte PwC Tata Consultancy Wipro Capgemini Cognizant HSBC HSBC India
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I once turned down a bunch of work because I had a 10 week freelance gig, and then they cut it in half to five weeks. I don't have any advice for you but thank you for the opportunity to vent
I learned that day to never say no to anything no matter how many jobs stack up on top of each other. Somehow it works out, even if I'm walking around half blind and mumbling to myself from sleep deprivation.
I’ve never gotten a kill fee added. The cool thing was, a couple of times on extended gigs, they added overtime. But I think it was a New York law that motivated that, not their own good will.
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You know how dealing w the RM is, you can barely get an email reply, let alone ask them to add something to the contract that would benefit you as the freelancer. I have never asked, but would like to try. My thought is, likely it would just delay the contract wrap up, but so many on here say they have done it.
Instead of a “kill fee” look for a cancellation/termination section of the contract and say it can be terminated with 10 days written notice from either party.
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You can certainly try. And in any other time, it may be the reasonable thing to do. These are weird times however. Gigs are few and far between and many agencies would probably be like “yeah, whatever. If you find another gig we’ll take our chances. There were 500 other people who wanted to take this gig for less money, anyway.” Don’t ask me how I know.