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There needs to be something like, "I tried, but found it to be overwhelmed with low-quality, low-bid experts-at-everything offshore body shops and astroturf/soc
by mkramlich 15y ago
There needs to be something like, "I tried, but found it to be overwhelmed with low-quality, low-bid experts-at-everything offshore body shops and astroturf/sockpuppet-portfolio-inflated accounts, which disgusted me and so gave up on it." Ie, horrible signal-to-noise ratio. A cattle call.
- james-fend 15y agoI totally agree with this.. hence why I am making: Freelanceful.com =)
- puredemo 15y agoI chose option three for that.
- mattvot 15y agoI agree there is a load of low quality developers out there on oDesk, but I've found that for the contracts good developers want, the buyers know not to hire the low quality developers. I've found plenty of high paying contracts on oDesk, you just need to know how to approach them.
- john_horton 15y agoFWIW, this is apparent in the data as well---employers are price sensitive, but not nearly as price sensitive as people might think. They good employers aren't stupid and realize you get what you pay for. In fact, the number of one predictor (by far) of who gets hired on oDesk is not experience, hours, tests, county etc.---it's how customized their cover letter is (I took the Levenshtein distance between an applicant's cover letter & their previous cover letter to create a "customization score" that I used as a predictor in a model of hiring). At least for development work, where each job is only receiving ~10-15 applicants, a well written cover letter that talks intelligently about the employer's problem can cut through the noise of low-quality applicants & lead to a hire.