These were the results (warning: REALLY bad)
Fiverr is a very popular place for non-technical people to find developers for low prices.
I’ve done it before myself! Needed an extra pair of hands for a project with a client a few years ago and posted this to fiverr.
I quickly realised this place is full of completely incompetent people. Developers that claimed 10+ years of experience didn’t know things that were extremely basic, such as getting into a server via ssh, and I couldn’t trust them to be able to do anything.
Out of curiosity, I decided to test 100 fiverr developers with pre-screen.dev, and the results were the worst so far.
The average
The average percentage of applicants filtered out by pre-screen.dev is 80%, meaning 80 out of 100 people get filtered out. Different traffic sources will differ. For example, traffic from a developer forum will have more competent people, so fewer will be filtered out.
Fiverr results
Fiverr’s filtered rate was 99%. Out of the 100 developers that applied for the job, only 1 made it through.
This means fiverr developers are 20 times worse than the average that applies through pre-screen.dev.
There are a few reasons for this:
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Most developers on fiverr aren’t developers. They are marketers that work for an agency that rents out developers. These marketers choose only clients who are easily fooled, and pre-screen.dev scares them away.
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The actual developers that are on fiverr are the lowest quality possible because the platform simply doesn’t incentivise anything more.
- This leads to only the worst actually being on there
- These people don’t know what they’re doing and don’t know how to learn to be better (nor do they get good incentives since they’re used to getting very low wages)
Conclusion
Definitely don’t get developers from fiverr. But if you do, find the 1 out of 100 with https://pre-screen.dev