4 Tips to Know When You Hire Developers

You’ve finally come to the conclusion that you want to develop a new website or mobile application. Should you outsource your work or hire developers? Should you hire PHP developers or a developer that is an expert in another programming language? A web developer can be one of your most critical hires. After all, that’s the person who will create your product and have complete control of its functionality.

Whether you decide to hire someone in-house or use a service provider there are a few things that you should take into consideration. The tips that we’ve gathered for you in this article are a must for anyone that is going to develop a new project or for those that have had a bad experience in the past working with developers.

Tips to Hire Developers

1) Understand the developer’s character

We put this as number one on our list as we believe it is the most important factor to take into consideration. Not once or twice have we encountered a situation where you hire PHP programmers or developers that don’t suit the DNA of the company or there is a serious communication barrier between the developer and his employer. Some developers will be very systematic, working like robots according to exact instruction that you give them, while other developers will tend to express their opinions regarding the project. You don’t want to find yourself in a situation where you are begging for every task to be done as the developer thinks differently.
Always interview your programmer before the start of your project and try to understand how he deals with tasks.

2) Hiring Cheap Always Works Out to Be Expensive

The internet has really broken the boundaries of employment. Companies can now hire developers from all parts of the world including India, Romania, Russia, U.K and more… While most companies work on tight budgets and try to maximise their return on investment, sometimes cutting back on costs will work out to be much more expensive. As a development company we have also experienced this in the past. When the demand for projects is high we sometimes use freelance workers for backup. Even our freelancers go through a strict recruitment process to understand their coding level and make sure that that the work we provide them will be done at the highest level possible. Remember that not all parts of the world train their programmers well and you will often receive low level code that is very messy.

3) Start on a Small Project

While you might thing you’ve narrowed your candidates down to a few and probably favour one, you should give him or her a small, non-critical project. You will be able to review his/her level of coding and see how efficient the candidate is in delivering products. Did the candidate go the extra mile to understand the task involved? Did he/her ask questions in order to provide the best possible product. Were there any communication problems allow the way that caused delays and most important, did that candidate meet deadlines. This can often be crucial when a company has to launch a specific product.

4) Hire Developers who have experience in different frameworks

A programming framework is like a set of tools that makes it faster and easier to write software with consistent code. While most programmers and developers are familiar with one framework or another, it is always best to hire someone that has extra knowledge that just plain code. The people are normally more experience programmers. Furthermore you’ll save a lot of time in development and it may save you money

Hire Developers – Final Thoughts

You should be as open as possible when interviewing your developer. Try to be as specific as possible regarding your project and give examples of the level of the final product that your aiming for. Try not to overwhelm the potential candidates with too many requests from your side, and take things slowly and let everything unfold naturally. At TechSors we are always here to give a helping hand and match the best programmer to your company’s DNA and project