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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

Full Time Employee

FTE is a TLA.

Is this a codeword for "not contractor"? I heard that at google contractors are second class citizens.

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.

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).

In the Google context, “FTE” actually stands for “Full-Time Employee”, as opposed to “TVC” = “Temp/Vendor/Contractor”.

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.

Yeah, 1 FTE just equals 40 work-hours.