Freelancing and other programming odd job sites/tips

So much help and guidance in here … it’s nice seeing those messages what encourages someone to do better at what they wanna do in life … keep up the good work guys … much respect
 
To get freelance work you need to add your details on the web in all the relevant sites and also place free adverts in gumtree.
I have started a database of South African developers looking for dev work - https://itfreelancer.co.za
 
charlieharper said:
Yea I've also posted a few times but ended up not hiring anyone, cause majority couldn't be bothered reading 1/4 of the description and then I DIY instead. :laugh:
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I specifically Asked for github profiles. Some of them had but empty and others had trivial repos. Prob copied off someone else’s page. Some added links to sites they claimed to have done. 70% of the sites didn’t work and the rest you don’t know whether they actually did it or not
 
Spacerat said:
I specifically Asked for github profiles. Some of them had but empty and others had trivial repos. Prob copied off someone else’s page. Some added links to sites they claimed to have done. 70% of the sites didn’t work and the rest you don’t know whether they actually did it or not
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Hypothetically speaking. Say a developer almost exclusively worked in the corporate/business arena and all their work was in private repos, but they offered to do a demo of some of the things they built in an interview. Perhaps even walk through some cherry picked examples of complex systems, useful features or big implementations - would that make up for the lack of public repos/opensource contributions?
 
Ejeckt said:
Hypothetically speaking. Say a developer almost exclusively worked in the corporate/business arena and all their work was in private repos, but they offered to do a demo of some of the things they built in an interview. Perhaps even walk through some cherry picked examples of complex systems, useful features or big implementations - would that make up for the lack of public repos/opensource contributions?
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A good interview, generally. I very seldom interview people with public code. When they do, it’s either because they just graduated or they worked on the Linux kernel or something.
 
Ejeckt said:
Hypothetically speaking. Say a developer almost exclusively worked in the corporate/business arena and all their work was in private repos, but they offered to do a demo of some of the things they built in an interview. Perhaps even walk through some cherry picked examples of complex systems, useful features or big implementations - would that make up for the lack of public repos/opensource contributions?
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of course

public repos/open source contributions is way oversold and exaggerated, and has no bearing on ability
 
Ejeckt said:
Hypothetically speaking. Say a developer almost exclusively worked in the corporate/business arena and all their work was in private repos, but they offered to do a demo of some of the things they built in an interview. Perhaps even walk through some cherry picked examples of complex systems, useful features or big implementations - would that make up for the lack of public repos/opensource contributions?
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Absolutely yes. But i got 80 proposals on upwork. All appeared to have the same skills etc. Not gonna do 80 interviews.
 
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