For $12/hour you are not going to get the right stuff, not by a long shot.
By rule of thumb, if you are paying less for a professional in a job that requires decades to do well, than you'd pay a McDonalds burger flipper, what you are going to get is a McDonalds burger flipper. Good luck with that.
You know how companies always like to tout that they hired the cream of the crop, the top percentiles? Well, by aiming for the $12/hour price segment, you've made the reverse commitment, you've decided you're gonna hire from the bottom 10th percentile, if even that.
As Paul Graham noted, the productivity difference between an average developer and a great developer can be as great as 50x. I'm leaving it for you to figure out what the difference between a bottom barrel developer and a great developer is (hint, it's probably more than 50x)
By rule of thumb, if you are paying less for a professional in a job that requires decades to do well, than you'd pay a McDonalds burger flipper, what you are going to get is a McDonalds burger flipper. Good luck with that.
You know how companies always like to tout that they hired the cream of the crop, the top percentiles? Well, by aiming for the $12/hour price segment, you've made the reverse commitment, you've decided you're gonna hire from the bottom 10th percentile, if even that.
As Paul Graham noted, the productivity difference between an average developer and a great developer can be as great as 50x. I'm leaving it for you to figure out what the difference between a bottom barrel developer and a great developer is (hint, it's probably more than 50x)