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Originally Posted by Robbie
just ask some of the people who run big affiliate programs and you'll find out that they are not paying big prices...they outsource it and get the best programmers in the world for relatively little money.
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From my experience, they're not getting the best programmers in the world, not by a long shot. However, they're getting cheap labor which can get the job done. My day job is software development (I started adult part time recently) and of the 3 decent sized projects that we outsourced parts to India and the Philippines, none were a success. And from a critical code reviewer, the returned product from them was absolute shit in terms of long term development. The code worked but they didn't use best practices, lots of code was redundant, little to no documentation, and the list goes on. It was something I would expect from an entry level developer, not someone with "10 years experience, MCSD, etc."
Then again, I'm sure most people's perspective here is "it cost me $9/hour and it works perfect!". Then, that leads them to conclude they are the best programmers in the world because they did it so cheap and it works flawlessly--for now. A good programmer can build a system that can be adapted (not hacked to work).
I am incredibly biased though and I was dead against outsourcing it in the beginning but management had their way. From your other post, you're dead on, it comes to trust. Find a developer you can trust and is cost effective, and that might as well be one of the best programmers in the world.