Buying services from freelancers
Today I’ve been posting some new assignment on two of the big freelance forums I use. I usually use people that I have been working together with before, but because of what we are working with on Testfreaks I can’t use the same freelancers all the time. Today I’ve talked to this really nice older woman (45+, based on here picture on MSN) about researching on the internet. She’s offering her services for 1$/hour, but as always I’m sceptical to older people using internet. I don’t really know why, I guess the young people are more hungry and eager to make money and therefor willing to work faster. The perfect freelancer that I see it, is a student on a university in Russian, Philipiness, Ukraine or China. Argentina is also a very good place to find talented freelancers.
A lot of people that I meet both IRL and online talk about India as the perfect place to outsource resources to. But I don’t agree to that, I’ve only had problems using people from India. Okey, they are really good programmers and so on, but they suck at thinking for them self. If I don’t provide them with the exact details, like a kitchen recipe for cookies, they are unable to perform my task. Why? All the other outsourcing destinations that I work with can think for them self, but the indians working inside big BPO companies can’t make this work.
Anyway, I’ll have to get back to my research. I will write more about outsourcing and freelancers later.
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