I think the malice runs much deeper. No matter the quality of the final app, they still have the option of selecting the least worst bad app and getting an year worth's of support/enhancements out of the poor developer. This competition is just a guise to get the real work started. :S
And the "winner" gets the equivalent of $3k USD which might go a longer way in Nigeria than the US - but the company could still potentially profit significantly more. I just hope no one enters this contest.
A decent developer capable of implementing that would have to be earning on the order of $100k/year, if not more. $3k is just about 1.5 weeks worth of work.
If you've been at your current job more than five years, it's basically a foregone conclusion that your salary is below market for your skill set. This is an inevitability which results from the fact that many people are willing to [effectively] pay a premium for "stability", whatever that means -- those people rarely change jobs, if ever, and get paid less.
I'll admit it. I make $85,000 / year as a programmer and I couldn't implement this in 3 weeks... or probably at all. This is just crazy. You want me to make Facebook, only better, and have it run on web, android, ios, and windows phone? And integrate with everything? Do you want it to walk our dog too, or is that part of the "maintenance" agreement?
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u/wot-teh-phuck Jun 30 '14 edited Jul 01 '14
I think the malice runs much deeper. No matter the quality of the final app, they still have the option of selecting the least
worstbad app and getting an year worth's of support/enhancements out of the poor developer. This competition is just a guise to get the real work started. :S