Hiring help... Any Testing Sites?

You could check indeed.com for a full time PHP developer or, again, you could use UpWork (you can hire one-time, part time or full time people there).

I will assume you are in the Western world since you have not indicated otherwise...


You need to sit down with an accountant who specializes in small business and discuss with them if hiring an employee is a sound decisions over hiring a independent contractor in your current situation. If you are making enough consistent revenue and profit to want to hire and employee, then you are making enough to get expert advice before making such a big move as hiring and employee. If not, then look into contractors. Hiring employees is nothing to take lightly.

You are saying that you want to hire someone as an employee, not for contract work. OK. But can you offer that employee the pay and benefits they can get at a larger company? Not to mention, can you afford the taxes that go along with hiring employees and all the other bureaucratic headaches? I'm not saying you have to be able to offer what google offers employees, but the way western economics are, employees need more than just a paycheck.

If you can't offer that employee benefits and decent pay, you will be forever a revolving door for developers who are "in between" jobs.

Most independent contractors usually work harder and quicker than employees and produce better outcomes because they have "skin in the game" (they run their own business and usually because they want to be independent). Western employees tend to have a different outlook because, even though they could be fired and lose their job for not performing, they seem to act and work like they have no "skin in the game" a lot of the time, even though they do. This partially stems from the fact that they know they can be fired or laid-off at any point, among other things.

You say that you are "finally" getting "nice traffic and signups". I will guess that means you are making money, but that alone means nothing because it's too vague and subjective.

Oh, and never rely on a recruiter's testing of a developer. Their job is to place as many people in a job as possible. They will tell you what you want to hear just to "make a sale". Most job recruiters are just one step above "used car salesman" on the trustworthiness scale. If you want a warm body, they will provide you with as many as you need. Anything more and you will have to shell out the big bucks for a good recruiting firm, who may not even take you on as a client in the first place.

Apparently, you question HAS been answered ... nobody is using a "testing service/site" because it is not a good idea. My goodness, how long can it possibly take to review candidates, yourself? Do you really want to turn that over to someone else who almost always has a financial incentive to push anybody - qualified or not - to you?