#6, outsourced hiring “services” like Codility are pretty much the new reality. It's just a piece of our new, automated, overly-optimized world. As programmers, we brought this upon ourselves. Just be thankful you're not a truck driver.
As someone who learned the hard way by outsourcing my developers as a new entrepreneur and now working with an internal team...it does tend to hurt professional developers when their job is commoditized. If you're competing for new business you're competing against a bunch of guys who post ridiculously low hourly rates, then take 5-10X longer to come up with a crap product than a good team would. To the extent that you have to compete in this race to the bottom it's far worse if you're the competent dev.
Just curious, did you find your backers ("California guys") here on ET?I'm an entrepreneur and if the deal with the California guys goes through, a net *hirerer* of developers (in the US and EU).
There are a few of us who have done the entrepreneur thing here, but if there are any VC types they're lurkers. I'd guess you could count on two hands the number of ET posters who even meet the Qualified Investor requirement, let alone be interested in doing an angel round. If you're interested in that happy to PM with more fertile hunting grounds for startup funding.Just curious, did you find your backers ("California guys") here on ET?
Not personally interested, just curious. And wondering if ET reputation and trust are monetizable. If so it would explain some recent otherwise inexplicable behaviour (e.g. Xela and her sock-puppets).There are a few of us who have done the entrepreneur thing here, but if there are any VC types they're lurkers. I'd guess you could count on two hands the number of ET posters who even meet the Qualified Investor requirement, let alone be interested in doing an angel round. If you're interested in that happy to PM with more fertile hunting grounds for startup funding.