Contract work is common in tech, and it's paid hourly. Lots of companies don't want huge software teams for decades. They want 2-3 years for something specific, then they outsource afterwards. Use the good design to start, and code monkeys to bust out the chicken wire and duct tape to keep shit running.
$50/hr contract is 3-4 years experience max. Senior should be closer to $70-$80/hr, though I'm not 100% sure about trends for the past 12 months.
They pitched him to a client company that was looking for that role at an unreasonable rate hoping once the company talked with him and liked him they would be flexible on the rate, they weren’t. Now tech pimp had no choice but to come back to OP hoping he might take lower rate. At that rate pretty much only contract roles are hourly
In tech there is no such thing as contracting and full time. If they run out of coding work, you’re let go either way. If they still have more, they keep you.
If any company seriously lets a good coder go just because their contract ran out they’re retarded and you wouldn’t want to work there anyways.
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