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Veniamin Smirnov2016-07-14 14:32:05
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Veniamin Smirnov, 2016-07-14 14:32:05

How to evaluate a front-end developer/designer before starting a collaboration?

Hey!
There was a need to expand a little and take a couple of people as assistants. I myself work remotely, there was both a successful and a sad experience of cooperation with remote specialists on various tasks that I cannot solve on my own.
I can't think of the best option for cooperation, because:
1. Not everyone agrees to a test task, because "what the hell are such employers."
2. Many ask for an advance payment.
3. Most have no-name social media profiles without real names, photos, or friends.
4. Payment methods are offered either by qiwi (and then you can’t find a person through this phone), or Yandex, a bank card, for example, is very rarely offered (only specialists with whom we have been working for a long time + those who really will do everything later).
Maybe you will have ideas to protect yourself from a dysfunctional performer (or a pseudo-executor who collects prepayments), and not to offend the performer with test tasks and lack of prepayment.

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Pavel Designer, 2016-07-14
@Ingword

If you make such demands on the performers, then meet such requirements as a customer.
1. If you want a test task, then pay for it. First, you select by portfolio, then with a test task you make sure that the performer is suitable.
A free test is possible only if: a beginner really wants to get a job or the project is large and promising, and the test task is small. All experienced specialists have already grown out of free time wasting on doubting customers))
2. Prepayment is a common thing and this is a guarantee that time will not be wasted. Afraid - divide into stages. The terms will increase, but personally you will be calmer.
3. Social media profiles have nothing to do with work, they are just your cockroaches. Many either do not have pages, or keep them solely for technical purposes (authorization on sites, for example). A project worth tens of thousands of euros and want to know the artist better? Arrange a video interview or invite to the office. There is always a way out.
4. Any self-respecting specialist has several payment methods. If you think some are not suitable, don't use them. WebMoney has certificates and a business level, Yandex has an identified account, PayPal has an arbitrage service and guarantees, banks also have guarantees - they are all quite reliable.
I always say that the portfolio speaks for itself and I don't work for free. There have been no problems for a long time. And if you want strictly with a test and without prepayment, then this is only for beginners with a weak portfolio, or look for recommendations. Although, there are exceptions everywhere)
I forgot something. A specialist is always visible and by discussing the project it is easy to understand whether the scammer is in front of you or not. The specialist will talk about the problem, how to solve it, clarify, ask, etc. I was often told that they chose me because of the approach to business.
If the proposed budget is noticeably lower, the deadlines are fantastically fast, the promise to do everything very cool and an attempt by all means to "go on Skype" and start work as soon as possible, while the prepayment is announced very often and persistently - this is most likely a scammer. =)

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tigra, 2016-07-14
@tigroid3

The surest option for verification is to ask for a portfolio and proofs that it really is his work (if the test does not want to do it). But even so, no one gives a guarantee, because this is a remote work, no contracts, everything is based on trust.

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Ankhena, 2016-07-14
@Ankhena

1. Ask for a portfolio.
2. For example, fl.ru has a safe deal with arbitrage.
3. Remote work does not cancel contracts. With our mail it is not fast, but nevertheless, you are planning a permanent cooperation. You can show your passport on Skype.
4. Test task - well, who knows how. The fact that the work will be permanent is only your words, not confirmed by anything. (This is a view from an employee) Therefore, you don’t want to do tests just like that if you have a portfolio, just like working without a 50% prepayment.
Tests with greater zeal will be done by young or very hungry typesetters. (This is an employer's perspective)

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Kirill Kublyakov, 2016-07-14
@Kublyakov

If you are looking for a permanent person, then the refusal of a test task is immediately past.
Unless, of course, there is no store to make up there)
Well, pay in stages, after the work has been done, and then it will be seen what kind of person and whether he should be trusted.

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HamSter, 2016-07-14
@HamSter007

1. The test task must be, but must be paid.
2. Confused and customers refusing to pay in advance! The contractor must also be confident in the customer!
3. If the name and surname, e-mail, skype, city + if there is also a portfolio are indicated on freelancing, then the absence of social media should not be embarrassing. networks. Personally, I do not have profiles in social networks - because this is nonsense, which terribly distracts from work.

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Antony Bark, 2016-07-30
@tolfy

There are only two real ways:
1. Competent, turn to friends and colleagues, do they have in mind or in stock a skillful specialist with whom they have experience.
Your profit is that you know your colleague, his personal skills and requests, and already by his description you will know a lot about the candidate. With friends a little more dangerous, but the profit is in human trust.
2. Place a detailed vacancy announcement in profile groups, requiring the candidate to leave public comments with a list of skills and a link to the portfolio.
Your profit - the guilds themselves "stuff the left" and their specific criticism of the candidates (and the requirements of your vacancy) will help you clarify your requirements and the vacancy description (or maybe radically change the request itself).
The second is exactly what you made this question, if I understood your idea correctly.

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