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Unless your product is extremely straightforward and doesn't need to be flexible in the future, there is a huge hidden cost when your developers aren't on the same page. In my experience, the result is far from "agile."
Interesting article. Some inaccuracies: - "Rentacoder does not have skilled developers from western countries. What it has are freelancers from countries like Romania, India, Pakistan and Russia." Nope. It has developers from all over(I live in Lebanon). Freelance programmers are simply programmers that don't work exclusively for one client. I am guessing you don't mean this in a bad way... - "The availability of par…
I'm from Latin America, and just recently I started using sites like RentACoder/oDesk/Elance. I've found that it is extremely hard for me to get jobs on these sites, especially since I'm not a webdesigner (I'm a C/C++/Python/Java guy). What tips and strategies do you recommend that increase the likelihood of being selected for a job?
Suppose I have a real company, and I want to expense or capitalize this. Does anyone have experience with IRS rules on this? What if the guy is in the U.S.? Do I have to send a 1099 to every coder I rent in this fashion to protect myself and my company?
What size project would you typically get done for the $450-$550 mentioned? I'm intrigued that this might be a way to get some small projects done I've been putting off done (like a simple shopping cart app with a few specific functions, that I just can't get interested in.)
What size project would you typically get done for the $450-$550 mentioned? I'm intrigued that this might be a way to get some small projects done I've been putting off done (like a simple shopping cart app with a few specific functions, that I just can't get interested in.)
For $250 you could get your shopping cart app done. Think of about $200 - $400 for a weeks work (fulltime) by a competent programmer. Then estimate how long it will take him and put that price.
I think I need to find another trade.
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don't hire Americans to do commodity work (i.e. PHP CRUD) This is why Americans are saying they are from overseas to get the jobs. If the price is the same, what does it matter where they are from? Speaking a common primary language and being in the same time zone has value. When I offshore work, I send an email and have to wait until the next day to get a response. When the worker is in my timezone and I get quick r…
If the prices are the same, the American probably isn't as skilled/experienced.
I've done both, and the amount of money a person can charge has a lot less to do with skill and experience than you think. Several people who worked for me for sustenance wages now make more money than I do because other people noticed that they are pretty good.
Selling yourself is a skill, and it has very little overlap with the skills required to be a good Engineer.
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1. People in Eastern Europe can be easily quantified by per capita income. And just because a dollar there goes further, it doesn't mean they have more dollars or can afford the things Americans can. 2. Estonia and the Ukraine are much more similar to each other than any Eastern bloc country is to the US. And I wouldn't lump Canada and Mexico together for discussion, but I would surely lump Mexico in with Central/Sou…
I don't think I can agree with that. The difference between Northern Michigan and Southern California or New York is substantially larger than the difference between Poland and Romania or Ukraine. The biggest difference between those countries and the US can be summed up in one word: market. They simply have a very limited local market for these skills, but plenty of people there have some skills and are prepared to…
We can go into an endless rabbit hole about which difference is bigger, on which parameters. Northern Michigan and Southern California operate on a substantially similar and similarly enforced set of laws. This is not the case for Poland, Romania or Ukraine.