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Experience required?

by lacqui on June 10th, 2010

As I previously mentioned, I’m doing some work on RentACoder.com.  I’ve noticed a few trends there though.

  • Unreasonable maximum bids:
    • Emergency!  Expert needed!  Must fix absolutely everything wrong with my system!  $25 maximum bid
  • Unreasonable communication requirements:
    • Bidder must be reachable at all times, 24 hours a day, Antarctica time zone
  • Unreasonable experience requirements:
    • Bidder must have written 20 apps from scratch using the TwitBook API.
  • Unreasonable demonstration of experience:
    • Bidder must show us 20 apps they have written.  We require an NDA before you get any more info
  • Unreasonable grasp of reality:
    • (repost) (repost) (repost) Why isn’t anybody replying to my ad? $25 maximum bid
  • Unreasonable grasp of geography:
    • Need programmer for North American properties database.  Geographically restricted to Antarctican coders only.

Yes, it’s better than going out and trying to find clients, but some of the ads are painful to follow.

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