Panel: Working as a Drupal Dev: Freelance vs Subcontract vs Employment

With all of the sessions on a business' perspective of a Drupal Developer, why not get the Developer's point of view as to what is involved in being a Drupal Developer.

This session will be a panel discussion with 3 types of developers:

  1. The Freelance Developer: this is someone who works for themselves as a Drupal Developer
  2. The Contract Developer: this is someone who does work on contract for a Drupal Development Firm
  3. The Employee Drupal Developer: this is someone that works at a Drupal Development Firm as a full time employee.

The discussion would cover topics like:

  • What challenges are faced and how are they dealt with in each situation?
  • What do you feel is the advantage to working as an employee vs a contractor vs a freelancer?
  • What are suggestions that could be given to a developer wanting to be in the same developer type?

This will be focussed on the developer, themer, programmer, etc, and the advantages / disadvantages of the different types. Should be interesting, for both shop owners and developers.

Schedule info
Status: 
Proposed
Session Info
Speaker(s): 
bmx269
gbernier
Track: 
Business + Strategy
Experience level: 
Beginner

Comments

sherakama's picture sherakama replied on

I saw this one in Seattle and it was great. I have some new questions for you now.

johannez's picture johannez replied on

Same here. I attended the one at the PNWS in Seattle and it was great to some insight into the different perspectives. As a contractor I definitely would like to see this again.

woombo's picture woombo replied on

Killer session, tons of questions! Good call!

samcllui's picture samcllui replied on

Having been through all of those roles myself, I do agree that there are very distinct advantages/disadvantages of each of these roles. I would love to hear more from fellow developers' experiences.

gbernier's picture gbernier replied on

Thanks for the great feedback guys! We love doing this panel and will be posting it again at other DrupalCamps. If any of you every have questions you want to kick around don't hesitate to hit me up always love these conversations.

Cheers,
Gene Bernier