Elderly programmers' remote short-term outsourcing pitfalls and survival guide

Posted by: XinYe 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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In today's highly competitive job market, older programmers face many challenges, and remote short-term outsourcing work has become the choice of many people. However, risks and opportunities coexist. Today I would like to share with you a blogger’s personal experience and summary of participating in a remote short-term outsourcing project. I hope it can give some inspiration to friends who have similar plans.

1. Project experience review

The blogger had previously participated in a remote outsourcing project and was suddenly kicked out of the corporate WeChat group while writing code, leaving no chat records. Later, we received canteen and convenience store projects. This time, the blogger learned his lesson and asked for a formal contract to clarify the nature of the work, daily salary and project management.

The project is staffed with three backends, three frontends, an application developer, a product manager, and a project manager. Bloggers are responsible for familiar businesses such as merchants, shopping carts, orders, payments, and price calculations. Outsourcing companies are very good at finding code resources suitable for new projects, which greatly saves programmers time and energy in writing basic code. Moreover, it is very comfortable to communicate with colleagues without the twists and turns of the workplace.

The working mode is to work from home, with a daily salary of 800 yuan and eight hours of work per day. During this period, some members work part-time and may also work joint overtime. Need to report work content and problems every day. Wages were originally scheduled to be paid on the 15th, but were not paid. Although the blogger was angry, he wisely asked the contact person and learned that the salary would not be paid until the project was completed. I asked other people who were part-time workers long-term and was told that they would be late but get paid. After weighing the situation, the blogger chose to continue working, as did everyone else in the group.

2. Experience sharing

1. Self-testing is important : Since the project does not have a professional testing team, programmers must do more testing themselves to ensure that the code functions as expected after it is delivered. 2. The time arrangement must be reasonable : write code and self-test during the day, adjust the time reasonably according to the joint debugging needs in the evening, and relax appropriately in the afternoon.
2. Communication methods must be efficient : Try to avoid text communication when working remotely, and use voice conferencing, screen sharing, etc. to improve communication efficiency.
3. Require front-end deployment in a timely manner : Since self-testing cannot cover all functions, the front-end is required to deploy the latest code in a timely manner. 5. Code standards cannot be lowered : Even for outsourcing projects, request, DTO, VO, PO and other code layers must be indispensable, and API document parameter definitions must be clear. 6. Communicate more with the person in charge : Communicate more with the person in charge, provide solutions and suggestions, and gain trust. The salary should be moderate to make the other party feel valuable and make the cooperation more pleasant.

3. Project status and prospects

It is now January 3rd, and the project currently only has 1 backend, 1 frontend, and 1 application developer left, and the project is about to be delivered. However, it is still unknown whether subsequent shipments will go smoothly, whether Party A will create difficulties, and whether the salary for the past one and a half months will be received. The blogger said he would continue to pay attention and report to everyone.

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