If you talk to any founder who has hired a developer for the first time they will tell you about the same experience. Finding the right developer takes a lot longer than you think it will. The interviews can be really tough to figure out if you do not know much about technology yourself. The person you finally choose looks perfect on paper and does a job for the first few weeks.. Then something changes around the second or third month. Deadlines get pushed back. It becomes hard to get an answer from the developer. The project starts to slow down in ways that're hard to understand and even harder to fix without hurting the working relationship with the dedicated developer. This is not about developers being bad at their job. Most dedicated developers are very good at what they do they are professionals. They really want to do good work. This is about the way companies hire developers, which has some big problems that most founders do not see until they are already in the middle of it.…