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#4 How detailed are your test cases? Do you have a sample document, I am interested to have a look at it. #6 If you're in the US, hire US. Mmm I disagree wit

• sanj 14y ago
  #4 I created an artificial outlet mall data file with all of my weird edge cases. #6 I don't want my job outsourced. That starts at home. More generally, when I'm in a position to be an employer, I try to be of the sort that I would want to be employed by.
• mkramlich 14y ago
  > I accept to take this risk to be able to reach developers that I will pay 4 to 5 times less than the local developers in my country. And you'll typically need 4-5x as many of them, and/or they bill 4-5x as many hours. This is not theory. I've seen this happen in reality, over and over again. Does this happen in all cases? No. But I've seen it happen enough that I make decisions based on it. And look at Mythical Man Month for a primer on why larger teams tend to be worse than smaller ones (worse efficiency, more communication overhead, more cheese-moving, etc.) Having flashbacks to the worse quality startups I've seen that had 5+ person teams in Uruguay, Pakistan, etc. when they could have had the same work accomplished by 1-2 more elite, and local, same timezone, same culture/language, more "expensive" (nominally, but not overall) Americans or Europeans.