The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)

Re:The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlan... by breadloaf on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:40PM (#31963131)

I tried to on the Upwork. But it is really hit or miss there.

1. I got hardware electric engineer to help me with a design of PCB. Guy was worth every cent.

2. Got embedded developer on separate project. Guy pretended that he can do a lot. I tried to explain to him, that I need a USB CDC device driver in MCU which has USB PHY and I want Windows to recognize and use usbser.sys (generic COM driver) or something similar. He told me that he understand what he is doing, I sent him the dev kit and then he ghosted me and I have ended up doing it myself with TinyUSB.

So as I said, really hit and miss on Upwork. Some people are writing lofty skillset so they can get more per hour and then failing miserably.

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Re:The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlan... by ido on Sunday July 03, 2022 @01:33AM (#31965360)

You have to know people personally or have contacts to people who do to reliably get the good ones, I would never rely on outsourcing websites like Upwork for exactly the reason you stated.

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