Started coding at the age of 13, now a professional software engineer and Scrum Master, creating and maintaining enterprise solutions. Eat - Sleep - Code - Lift - Repeat 💪🏾
To answer it first: I personally would take further projects as long as the payment is good and as long as those are not projects where you would want you name involved at any cost. For example if you help build the next Facebook, I'd insist on having my name on it and then decline the work with him.
It would be interesting to understand the reasons behind his behavior. Is it because he earns way more than you know with those projects? Is it because he's afraid he'd loose the client's if they know there are other developers involved? If this is the case, he must be insecure or just really not good at what he's doing. I wouldn't say it's unethical, but I'd call it disrespectful.
And in my experience it's always better to act as a team and have the client know that because this gives the client a more secure feeling working with you. For example when one of the team gets sick, the work can still be done. You have more shared knowledge than just one person. Maybe there are members that are specialized in certain areas etc.
So I see absolutely no reason to behave like he does.
"Is it because he's afraid he'd loose the client's if they know there are other developers involved?" - He applies to the companies as a developer for Remote Job as I said. So, he gets hired by them and then he does the work with the help of others without notifying them. He does this to make a bigger client base.
Most of the cases in the platforms- clients hire a single freelancer. I mentioned the word unethical as they are hiding the truth from the client. I am not concerned with my name or just the payment. I am just thinking about ethical issues.
Started coding at the age of 13, now a professional software engineer and Scrum Master, creating and maintaining enterprise solutions. Eat - Sleep - Code - Lift - Repeat 💪🏾
Thanks for the clarification :)
To answer it first: I personally would take further projects as long as the payment is good and as long as those are not projects where you would want you name involved at any cost. For example if you help build the next Facebook, I'd insist on having my name on it and then decline the work with him.
It would be interesting to understand the reasons behind his behavior. Is it because he earns way more than you know with those projects? Is it because he's afraid he'd loose the client's if they know there are other developers involved? If this is the case, he must be insecure or just really not good at what he's doing. I wouldn't say it's unethical, but I'd call it disrespectful.
And in my experience it's always better to act as a team and have the client know that because this gives the client a more secure feeling working with you. For example when one of the team gets sick, the work can still be done. You have more shared knowledge than just one person. Maybe there are members that are specialized in certain areas etc.
So I see absolutely no reason to behave like he does.
"Is it because he's afraid he'd loose the client's if they know there are other developers involved?" - He applies to the companies as a developer for Remote Job as I said. So, he gets hired by them and then he does the work with the help of others without notifying them. He does this to make a bigger client base.
Most of the cases in the platforms- clients hire a single freelancer. I mentioned the word unethical as they are hiding the truth from the client. I am not concerned with my name or just the payment. I am just thinking about ethical issues.
Then I think you took the right action 👍
I just hope this will not harm my new client orders :/