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What does FTE stand for?: > From what I can tell, there have been about 4 FTE from Google over this period

by maartin0 10mo ago

kannanvijayan 10mo ago
Full Time Employee
- DanielHB 10mo ago
  Is this a codeword for "not contractor"? I heard that at google contractors are second class citizens.
  - charcircuit 10mo ago
    >at google contractors are second class citizens This is the case at many companies to avoid contractors being considered employees.
    - DanielHB 10mo ago
      Yes, but that is usually more relating to pay/benefits. At google (from what I heard) contractors are put on the bad projects, maintenance work or support functions. As in there is a big separation between work done by full-time employees and contractors in most teams.
  - ColonelPhantom 10mo ago
    I think FTE is mostly used as a 'unit'. E.g. if two people work on something 50% of the time, you get one "FTE-equivalent", as there is roughly one full-time employee of effort put in. Though in this context it just seems to be the number of people working on the code on a consistent basis.
    - dragonwriter 10mo ago
      FTE can mean either: * “Full Time Employee” (which can itself mean “not a part-timer” in a place that employs both, or “not a temp/contractor” [in which case the “full-time” really means “regular/permanent”]) or * “Full Time Equivalent” (a budgeting unit equal to either a full time worker or a combination of part time workers with the same aggregate [usually weekly] hours as constitute the standard for full-time in the system being used.)
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    - Ghoelian 10mo ago
      Yeah, 1 FTE just equals 40 work-hours.
comonoid 10mo ago
FTE is a TLA.
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jlokier 10mo ago
It stands for "Full Time Equivalent". It's a measure of time spent working on something, to standardise comparisons of work capacity and acknowledge that it's not always full time, especially when aggregating the time from different people. One full time person = 1 FTE. For example if you work 20 hours a week on project A and 20 hours on project B, then project A will count your contribution as 0.5 FTE while you're assigned to that project. If you also have two other people working on it full timee, and a project manager working 1 day a week on it, then project A will count the contribution from all three of you as 2.7 FTE. (2.7 = 0.5 + 2 + 0.2).
- layer8 10mo ago
  In the Google context, “FTE” actually stands for “Full-Time Employee”, as opposed to “TVC” = “Temp/Vendor/Contractor”.
- rahkiin 10mo ago
  This example assumes 1fte=40 hours which is not nexessarily the case in all countries or under all collective agreements. 1fte can be 36, 38, or even 48 hours.

What does FTE stand for?: > From what I can tell, there have been about 4 FTE from Google over this period

kannanvijayan 10mo ago

Full Time Employee

DanielHB 10mo ago
Is this a codeword for "not contractor"? I heard that at google contractors are second class citizens.
- charcircuit 10mo ago
  >at google contractors are second class citizens This is the case at many companies to avoid contractors being considered employees.
  - DanielHB 10mo ago
    Yes, but that is usually more relating to pay/benefits. At google (from what I heard) contractors are put on the bad projects, maintenance work or support functions. As in there is a big separation between work done by full-time employees and contractors in most teams.
- ColonelPhantom 10mo ago
  I think FTE is mostly used as a 'unit'. E.g. if two people work on something 50% of the time, you get one "FTE-equivalent", as there is roughly one full-time employee of effort put in. Though in this context it just seems to be the number of people working on the code on a consistent basis.
  - dragonwriter 10mo ago
    FTE can mean either: * “Full Time Employee” (which can itself mean “not a part-timer” in a place that employs both, or “not a temp/contractor” [in which case the “full-time” really means “regular/permanent”]) or * “Full Time Equivalent” (a budgeting unit equal to either a full time worker or a combination of part time workers with the same aggregate [usually weekly] hours as constitute the standard for full-time in the system being used.)
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  - Ghoelian 10mo ago
    Yeah, 1 FTE just equals 40 work-hours.

comonoid 10mo ago

FTE is a TLA.

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jlokier 10mo ago

It stands for "Full Time Equivalent". It's a measure of time spent working on something, to standardise comparisons of work capacity and acknowledge that it's not always full time, especially when aggregating the time from different people. One full time person = 1 FTE. For example if you work 20 hours a week on project A and 20 hours on project B, then project A will count your contribution as 0.5 FTE while you're assigned to that project. If you also have two other people working on it full timee, and a project manager working 1 day a week on it, then project A will count the contribution from all three of you as 2.7 FTE. (2.7 = 0.5 + 2 + 0.2).

layer8 10mo ago
In the Google context, “FTE” actually stands for “Full-Time Employee”, as opposed to “TVC” = “Temp/Vendor/Contractor”.
rahkiin 10mo ago
This example assumes 1fte=40 hours which is not nexessarily the case in all countries or under all collective agreements. 1fte can be 36, 38, or even 48 hours.