Hiring an overseas freelance programmer?
gexla: Overseas?  Overseas is not very descriptive of what you are looking for.  I am an American working as an overseas developer to people in Europe and it works great.  They are not outsourcing things to me though because I am a part of their team.  We all work together.If you are talking about outsourcing to save money then this likely will not live up to your expectations.  Outsourcing can be to save money or it can be to farm out work to people who have skills you cannot find elsewhere.  A good pro will charge what he/she is worth (probably not much different than what an American/European counterpart will charge) and will likely give you a better experience because an experienced pro is more likely to smell disaster before it strikes.A "warm body" who is filling a chair for you at much cheaper rates than you can get anywhere else will be a mixed bag.  Outsourcing is not fire and forget.  If you simply shove your work to someone and expect great results then you will likely be wasting your time and money.  Outsourced help needs to be managed just as well as the rest of the team.  Certain things (data entry) might work well, but dev projects not so much.Or you might get lucky.  Again, mixed bag.  YMMV.