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Date sent: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:25:08 -0500
From: Mark Brown <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: 1/2 Price Programming (was Re: Looking for a custom DLL)
> Hello John,
>
> JH> - I know some programers who would be happy to do some part time
> JH> work over a weekend for much less than $35/hour.
>
> recently i needed a programmer to do some complicated web work on a
> unix box. so i looked all over for cheap programmers, found Romania
> programmers for 5 an hour, Russian ( my first choice as i have had
> extremely good luck using Russians ) about 25 and hour and lastly
> American for 85 an hour. the bids were as follows.
>
> Romania 15,000.00 - Russia 40,000.00 - American 5,020.00 plus i don't
> think i ever got the Romania guy to understand, the Russians
> understood too well and the American i guess thought no big deal.
> Granted this is a very rare case, but i think what happened is that i
> found someone who fully understood "EXACTLY" what i wanted and had
> probably done similar in the recent past and had no fear that he could
> not deliver. i will say that typically Russians are very good and very
> knowledgeable, but as evident not always the cheapest. So you can't
> always go by the hourly rate.
>
> i would suggest specking out jobs for bid on elance.com just to get
> ideas about the market. at the risk of insulting someone i will say
> that i shy away from Indian and Malaysian programmers just because
> technically they are way too vertically trained.
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Mark mailto:markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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