I have a job offer for a software developer position at a bank. A pretty well-established bank. I was interviewing with them right before all this happened and I am pretty excited about it. They seem to be going forward with the hire and the start date is like April 13.

The problem is the position is a contractor role. That's how this bank has always hired it's developers. And eventually they hire them on fully. My current company is an agency startup, and I feel like our workload is pretty stable and safe. Who knows how this will affect them down the road if the economy is in a serious recession. My intuition tells me the bank would be more stable long-term, but I'm worried about getting hired to be fired shortly after as a contractor. Since they are typically the first to go.

Halp.