I'm open to hire from 5.13 to 6.11.
Years ago we had a software project and we outsources some modules to a reputable company in India.
1. They did not understand the application
2. You had to tell them exactly what to do and in most cases as well how to do it
Due to that our programmer said that this will take as long as he would do it by himself...
Years ago we had a software project and we outsources some modules to a reputable company in India.
1. They did not understand the application
2. You had to tell them exactly what to do and in most cases as well how to do it
Due to that our programmer said that this will take as long as he would do it by himself...
Very common experience.
I have the same experience in university group work. I am always paired with chinese because im international student (such a racist lecturer pairing locals with locals, internationals with internationals). The language barrier made it terrible but at least the lecturer gave a decent mark even though the program was far off from what the requirement was.
Hello,
I wonder if someone already tried to hire engineers in India, China or so? Are they on Freelancer.com or some other websites? Just wondering if it's possible to hire people on lower cost to do some software programming for hobby project.
Try looking in Indonesia. I know they have pretty good universities over there when it comes to teaching programming.
For this kind of work, I'd recommend you use upwork rather than freelancer, but yeah... upwork is also still a pretty fast race to the bottom. And you need to have a good solid understanding of exactly what you want, or you'll end up haemorrhaging cash in spec-shift hell, then eventually have something delivered you can't evaluate or even use.
I'd recommend you don't send work overseas unless it's work you could easily do yourself, but don't have the time.. at least then
1) you will spec the work intelligently, with sensible expectations.
2) you can catch problems quickly.
3) you can judge the deliverables appropriately, in time.
For this kind of work, I'd recommend you use upwork rather than freelancer, but yeah... upwork is also still a pretty fast race to the bottom. And you need to have a good solid understanding of exactly what you want, or you'll end up haemorrhaging cash in spec-shift hell, then eventually have something delivered you can't evaluate or even use.
I'd recommend you don't send work overseas unless it's work you could easily do yourself, but don't have the time.. at least then
1) you will spec the work intelligently, with sensible expectations.
2) you can catch problems quickly.
3) you can judge the deliverables appropriately, in time.
I'm registered on freelancer . com but that website really is a race to the bottom kind of place. With descriptions like "hey I want to build a drone pcb" and that is all the info you have to place a bid on. No possibility to ask for more information or whatever. For the 30 jobs I checked today the majority of them are like this.
For this kind of work, I'd recommend you use upwork rather than freelancer, but yeah... upwork is also still a pretty fast race to the bottom. And you need to have a good solid understanding of exactly what you want, or you'll end up haemorrhaging cash in spec-shift hell, then eventually have something delivered you can't evaluate or even use.
I'd recommend you don't send work overseas unless it's work you could easily do yourself, but don't have the time.. at least then
1) you will spec the work intelligently, with sensible expectations.
2) you can catch problems quickly.
3) you can judge the deliverables appropriately, in time.
I do most of my work on up work. Like with most things you get what you pay for. 30-50 usd per hour gets you good value for money.
But don't be blinded by the worker's rate. Get a quote for fixed price with milestones. And you might notice that the 50 usd per hour guy
is actually cheaper than that 30 usd per hour rate guy since het is faking the hours / is less competent.
If you look at the cost for the employer if you were to do it yourself / if you had to hire a person locally. Than it is actually a very good deal.
So you guys just crossed out freelancer and upwork. Which ones are still usable then?
So you guys just crossed out freelancer and upwork. Which ones are still usable then?
I used to do some electronic design work (pen and paper analog/basic digital logic) for the site now known as Vworker... I forgot what the former name was. I'm also a member of a few other freelancing sites and the things that are painfully similar about the few top freelancing sites are :
1) They're almost always very saturated and overrun with "experts" from India, overcutting what should be a $100 work by half or even more.
2) Most buyers can't post project properly and trying to find one where the contents matches the 'category' is a pain in the ass
3) They charge you through the roof for their website services...
Regardless... I'm wondering if there's a move, or should there be a move, from the community (like for example here at EEVBlog) to start a no-nonsense 'band of engineers for hire' sort of stuff... hmmmmm