You, the freelance programmer, would you pay someone else to write code for you?

Re:You, the freelance programmer, would you pay someone else... by lastofus on Friday November 14, 2014 @04:34PM (#8609628)

I wouldn't mind outsourcing some of my work but there are usually factors that stop me:

* Cost: Good experienced devs in a timezone I want to be awake for to talk with cost more than I can afford to pay (generalizing here)

* Management overhead: Good communication, writing good specs, etc such that a dev can complete the work in the way I want it done can be just as time consuming if not more so than doing it myself

* Establishing trust: Farming out work when in crunch mode to an unproven dev and hoping for the best doesn't sit well with me. I would want to establish a working relationship starting with code projects that are small and don't care if they come back crappy (which is almost none of my work at the moment)

* NDAs: Companies generally don't like you granting access to their codebase to people they did not vet/hire themselves

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Re:You, the freelance programmer, would you pay someone else... by constantinLG on Monday November 17, 2014 @05:00AM (#8617545)

You have pointed indeed real situations about outsourcing to a programmer. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

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