I am a contract employee that was just brought on a month ago. I have done well with onboarding and learning their tech. I have now been asked to design an architecture for an upcoming project, and document it all. Nothing at this company has been well documented before. I have a feeling they just planning to use my previous experience and then let me go since my pay is high. Is there a way I can safeguard against this?

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You can safeguard against losing your job by doing a good job. Planning and documenting an architecture is a pretty standard request for principal/architect level employees. Just because nothing is well-documented currently, doesn’t mean they haven’t asked for documentation previously - but if you’ve been a software engineer long enough to be architecting, you should know that documentation is almost never prioritized when there’s code to be written. I wouldn’t worry about it.

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I agree doing a good job is important.

The only thing is that I am not a principal or architect which reveals a lot about the state of things at this company. The senior folks at the company get away with only talking about doing documentation and get away with doing none of it. The technical director just eats it up due to his biases for those folks.

I know it sounds like a not so good but I have some limitations right now

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