* You are a salaried contractor with medical insurance.
* The payment rate is way less than that of a typical contractor.
* As a contractor, the only real career path is to manage other contractors or run sales for customers.
* Double management. You will have to report to both the customer's management and EPAM's management. Double meetings and bureaucracy.
* Your main KPI are reviews from the customers. Your main job is to ask customer managers to give good feedback for your EPAM management.
* Hard to build long-term relationships and a solid background. As a contractor, you can lose an assignment at any moment.
* Low to almost non-existent bonuses.
* Company stocks have dropped by more than 400% since 2022.
* The only growing offices in 2024 were in India.
