In-house vs Freelance vs Dedicated Software Developers

Imagine: you need to hire a developer. There are three employment types: In-House, freelance and dedicated developers. Which one is your best choice?

In-House developers are on your company’s staff, they work in the office, go on vacation, and enjoy cookies in the kitchen.

You can communicate with them face-to-face and easily control work process. 

Moreover, they are highly involved in the project and understand it’s objectives, so they are motivated to increase their productivity. Also, in-house devs can learn from each other, which allows you to hire a junior and make a savvy loyal senior out of him. 

But you spend a lot of time to hire them and need to pay a lot of money: not only salary, but vacation, seek leaves, insurance, taxes, workstation as well. 

You can hire freelance developers to reduce the costs. They have relatively low rates, and there are a lot of devs to choose from on different freelance platforms. But be ready for poor quality work and missed deadlines: such devs usually don’t have any proof of their skills, often work on several projects at a time and seldom take any legal or financial responsibility for their work. It will take a lot of time to find really good and responsible freelancers.

Or you can try to hire dedicated developers. The process is quite quick, and you get guarantees that ensure responsibility for the quality of developer’s work. You also can control work results and make corrections in the process of development. Actually, you receive a remote full-time employee and don’t need to pay taxes, vacation and other additional costs. But it is still remote work, and you may have different time zones and cultural differences with your devs.

So, what is the best employment model? The answer depends on what you need. In our new article we tell about pros, cons and particular situations when you better choose this or that model.

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