- LanceSoft misrepresented themselves right from the start, both to me and to the company (I'll call it Acme). LS approached _me_ with the opportunity, they asked if I was interested, and then they proceeded to discuss Acme as if LanceSoft was working on Acme's behalf. They were not. After I started the assignment, I found out that _no one_ at Acme had even heard of LanceSoft before, not even the group in HR who had posted my contract online. (When your supervisor wonders out loud in front of you, saying, "How did you even get interviewed?" you know something's weird.)
- If you have given them any indication you're interested - even if you haven't signed any paperwork - LanceSoft's recruiters will call/text you day or night if you don't answer every single email immediately. I was working on other contracts for other companies while I was interviewing with LanceSoft, and the interruptions were constant.
- The hourly rate you are promised at first is _not_ your take-home pay: it is your rate PLUS LanceSoft's commission. They got my verbal agreement, wrote up the first batch of paperwork, and then came back to me with the real rate amount (a twenty percent difference exactly). My pay was barely enough to make the contract worthwhile for the three months in question, but not enough for me to consider staying on. I wanted to stay at Acme, my supervisor at Acme wanted to keep me, but I just couldn't afford it.
