Outsource The Outsourcing To The Outsourcer

By: Jason Craig on Sep 17, 2009 | No Comments

Who doesn’t want something cheaper, especially nowadays right? I’ll keep this in the realm of web related programming to make it relevant. To take from one of my previous posts, you have an idea for a website and have decided to hire a coder. We’ll use RentACoder as the base for which you will be selecting a coder after placing your job online.

Before long, and more like minutes you’ll start receiving hundreds of views on your project and several bids. The prices will vary in range just as the locations of the coder will. Initially there are some things to consider. Will your coder speaking English fluently and is that a concern for you? Will your project sacrifice in the way of quality due to low cost? It is hard so say as no two individuals are alike, nor have the same set of skills, knowledge, etc.

What should be more of a concern is when you hire someone to do work for you outside of a web programmer farm such as RAC and the half-dozen similar sites that are out there is the person you are hiring going to outsource your job without your knowledge. The following video, although humorous does partly convey this issue.

More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas

As I said, although the video is humorous, in reality this is what does occur in the world of web programming. BlueLayerMedia has been contracted on numerous occasions to do website work where we are hired as a third party with a warning not to contact the other party. The reasons for the no contact should be obvious. The person(s) who hired us will have to answer to the person that hired them and explain why someone else is doing the job that they were hired for. Secondly, the middle-man is out of his cut.

I’ve done some very basic Googl’ing and discovered several people that we do work for front themselves off as web designers/programmers only to turn around and hire someone else to do the work for them.

If this is a concern for you, when hiring a coder, be sure to check their references as much as possible. Ask for samples of their previous work. Pick a snippet of code and ask them to explain what it does. If you want to take it one step further, show the same snippet of code to someone else and have it verified. Most people who outsource their work, have no knowledge of what PHP (for example) does. Quizzing them on a section that they should have created should yield an immediate and exact response.

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