Hello!<p>I've finally gotten my business to the point that I NEED to hire on at least one subcontractor to take over some of the development work on my plate.<p>My first thought was to hire out of the Philippines, as I'd heard from a couple of online business bloggers I know that there are a lot of very capable folk willing to work for what amounts to a large sum for them but a small one for me.<p>I'm just concerned, I guess, about hiring anyone, much less a foreign worker, for no other reason than I'm scared to "let go" as it were and trust ANYONE.<p>To that end, I need to find someone capable in PHP -- most of my projects are currently built on a "custom" codebase (all my spaghetti code from 10 years of work) as I'd gotten too busy to keep up with the latest frameworks and such. I would LIKE, however, to get someone who can work with me to transition to Laravel/Symfony (I'm not ready to go to Rails/Node, I don't think).<p>Anyone have advice for where/how to find quality developers that fit the bill? I can't quite afford to hire at American full-time rates, but I need full-time work. May be crappy of me, but there it is -- I'm in that weird limbo that I MUST get out of.<p>Thanks a million!
I find mine on oDesk. Rates vary widely; good talent is always worth it. I'm paying between $12 and $38/hr.<p>I post a small gig, with well defined deliverable. Then I have like 100+ applicants. I use a tool I created to filter this down to four or five.<p>I'll do a quick interview, ask for code or something and then hire two of them for the same gig.<p>I evaluate their work over this short period (10-20h).<p>I pick the "winner"<p>The cost of this hiring via experimental gig is very low and I've had good results thus far.
Toptal(<a href="http://www.toptal.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.toptal.com/</a>) could fit your bill. The average quality of developers is much higher there.