[quote=svelte]The first guy mentioned (holds jobs for 2 months, does nothing, gets paid then fired) would never be hired by me because I’d trash-can his resume as soon as I saw the length of his stay at his prior employers.
The hire-folks-to-do-my-work path is riddled with problems. What if those folks steal code and pass it off as their own work? Many companies today check very closely the licensing of software they reuse out of fear of being sued. Not knowing who is “writing” your code and therefore whether any of it is proprietary to another company or covered under some sort of license (BSD, GNU, GPL, MIT, Apache or more restrictive types) leaves the company wide open.[/quote]
For most of these jobs, they are wannabe FinTech startups that got a lot of VC funding. Most of them want to make a proof of concept so that the company can raise the next round of funding, get acquired, or go public.
80% of them wont be around in 2 years. we arent talking about a defense or public sector job or something requiring a security clearance. Think a company like WebVan or pets.com. these are the companies thats so lax on review process, interview process, so yes you can get away with it if you dont mind compromising your work ethics.
and theres a lot of short term money to be made this way. Silly Silicon Valley…
Your concerns about code stealing, licensing, etc are overblown. The code isnt important enough or revolutionary enough to be worth stealing in most of these fintech startups….and you wont be able to tell if you are the guy obtaining the code from the the cheaper outsourced labor, do the code review, and the gitlab/github checkin, which you would do if you were trying to pass if off as your own code…at these fintech startups, no one gives a shit… thats why these people can get away with what they are doing…its one of the reasons why i got out of these fintech startup bay area pushes i generation ago. the goal is short term exit strategy and to cash in…different for the few of us that are in the game trying to make a difference, where we use our rental income to pay the bills so we can try to find an opportunity we enjoy doing … hopefully ill get there one day.
