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Robert Scoble works at Fast Company.TV (title: Managing Director). Everything here, though, is his personal opinion and is not read or approved before it is posted. No warranties or other guarantees will be offered as to the quality of the opinions or anything else offered here.
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February 13th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
This is not good news for US software developers. I took a quick look at the site. Average rate for a .NET developer is $15/hr? Are you kidding me? That’s 30K a year. You can’t live in America and support a family on that.
February 13th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
You’ll find that’s true of all of these types of sites. People want things done, but don’t really want to pay for them. Either ignore the low paying jobs, or go find contract work in a more “traditional” way (eg networking, word of mouth, those kinds of things).
February 13th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
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February 13th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Great headline Scoby. I see you are still trying hard to get to the top of search engine results… ;-)
February 14th, 2007 at 12:01 am
[...] oDeskians - Brian Goler here. In case you didn’t catch Robert Scoble’s profile of oDesk on the ScobleShow, I want to quickly introduce myself to let you know that I’ve joined Team oDesk as VP of [...]
February 14th, 2007 at 6:45 am
Having worked through oDesk, this is not a place to go if you want to earn real money. This is the kind of place you try to find odd jobs to keep your skills sharp or to practice new things you have learned. It works well when you are relocating and need a job to tide you over until you are able to find real employment. The average salaries for experienced people in all fields are laughable.
February 14th, 2007 at 8:46 am
(caveat first, I work in customer support for oDesk but have been a provider in the past)
I see a few comments on low pay for providers. In defense, a quick check shows just under 9% of the total active providers on our network are from the U.S. As we all know, the cost of living is different in other countries. As a former provider on our network, I was paid what I was worth. And I also did not have to pay for gas to travel to and from work, daycare costs were completely eliminated as well as a few other work related expenses.
The more U.S. providers oDesk has active and working, the higher that average pay rate will be. Buyers don’t always go the cheapest route.
February 15th, 2007 at 3:38 am
[...] Scoble mentioned odesk so I went and checked it [...]
January 29th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I had a few bad experiences with Odesk, and finally have learned my lesson. Sure everyone says there are good and bad programmers, but the problem with Odesk is their dispute system. If a programmer runs up the hours and/or delivers garbage. Which happens more often than it doesn’t, then you have little recourse. Their system charges your bank card anyway, then you are at their mercy to get a refund. You’d be more likely to get hit by a meteorite. So I advise everyone to stay away from Odesk.
February 24th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Hi, I have written my own view of the odesk service: http://ework.cz/odeskcom-review/