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We do this at my startup. Instead of hiring FTEs, we hire people for 10-30 hours per week. This is great for people that want to make more money than they could
by ryanSrich 6y ago
We do this at my startup. Instead of hiring FTEs, we hire people for 10-30 hours per week. This is great for people that want to make more money than they could as an FTE, or for people that want to work more on side projects.
It helps that we have no bullshit meetings, everything is async, and we take advantage of automating almost every aspect of the business.
I’ve found that hiring contract devs for say 20 hours per week yields the same output as an FTE at 40. Why? Because we don’t fill the rest of their week with bullshit.
- yonig 6y ago> I’ve found that hiring contract devs for say 20 hours per week yields the same output as an FTE at 40 This is interesting bc of how common it is to hear people complain about pointless meetings. Do you see a sacrifice in devs not being familiar enough with the product?
- ryanSrich 6y agoNot in the 10 months we’ve existed. We’ve had a few backend devs in that time. We make sure everything is written down, and I make myself very available for questions - mostly async, but I’m not opposed to a call if it makes things faster. It helps that our tech isn’t that complicated - python/Django backend, slack app and react frontend.