Pros
1. Free insurance if you are single
Cons
1. Company does not care about you as a contractor. It wasn't until my 2-week notice did my PM ask me what team I was on. How can they determine my compensation if it took them over a year to find out what my position/role was. 2. Need assistance for Human Resources? I have an ongoing issue that was raised over a year ago. The issue was brought back up 2 months ago. Now I have an email chain between me and HR. About a dozen emails sent to them, with no real updates. PM and CEO are both cc'd. In order to receive any information, I had to start calling the HR department. 3. Medical leave/issues? Good luck coming back. A coworker of mine had cancer, he left on medical leave. I find out later that because AOI failed to communicate with the Prime contractor, this employee was denied from returning after beating cancer. 4. Understaffed team or project? Over the 2 years that AOI has been a subcontractor for this project, I have never seen them fill a position. I've been missing a deputy manager for a year, as well as an imaging person (see 3 for coworker with cancer). 5. AOI has a noncompete in their handbook that will raise issues if any other company on the contract attempts to hire you. My deputy manager left because he was unable to transition over to the Prime contractor. I was told by the Prime that I am in the same boat. The Prime would have to deal with the noncompete.
