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> Why not hire part-time developers? Because they don't show up when your teams need the most interaction. If you have the luxury of giving a developer a six m
by nurettin 5y ago
> Why not hire part-time developers?
Because they don't show up when your teams need the most interaction. If you have the luxury of giving a developer a six month job which requires absolutely no interaction, great. Go ahead. But your part-timer won't show up at various critical times. Unless they are absolutely dedicated, they will miss weeklies and disappear especially when they release to prod and the bugs start getting reported. And you have no way of penalizing it.
- rendall 5y agoIt sounds like you're talking about irresponsible and unreliable engineers, not part-time engineers.
- ghaff 5y agoIt depends on what "part-time" means. If part-time means I'll take Fridays off (which are often low meeting days anyway) and will (flexibly) not work 8 hours most days, it may be fine. If it means I'll take several one to two month-long vacations a year, that's something very different. The manner in which you're working less absolutely matters.
- rendall 5y agoDefinitely. I think what matters most, to most teams, is a scheduled consistency and regular contributions, whether that's "full time except for winter" or "30% allocation" or "alternating weeks" or whatever.