How to Hire PHP Developers

PHP Developers

PHP developers are generally the web developers who build websites and web applications by using dynamic scripting language PHP, php is well known for web development, php developers can be classified as web developers or software developers.

Why should you hire php developers?

PHP is one of the open-source servers-side scripting languages. Many web applications, eCommerce websites, web-portals have created by php is one of the robust evident of its Dominance in the web development industry. Since php as an open-source server-side scripting language plethora of various plugins and functionalities has to be used while building a web application or website, hence hiring a php developer who has sound knowledge in latest versions of PHP is an important part to build a great web application for your business.

How to hire a right PHP developer for your project

Hiring php developer is not as easiest task as you think, as well as it’s not an impossible thing, everyone has played in the cricket match but only one is selected as a man of the match. In the same way, we’ve to consider few vital things while hiring php developers, that are,

1. Don't constrain salary for the right talent: As salary has become a primary financial aspect for majority of people, don’t limit it for the right candidate, if you do so you may get a person that unfit for your unique requirements.
2. Ask right question: When interviewing the candidate don’t waste both of yours time with some story type questions like “what is PHP?”, “who invent PHP?” and etc. Ask the questions only which you really expect the candidate should have been know. At the same time keep your tone polite
3. Review Previous Projects: Reviewing previous projects which has been done by the candidate will help to reveal the actual practical knowledge of your candidate.
4. Conduct Practical Test: If a project needs to be completed within the stipulated time frame could be done only by a great team of developers, hence you couldn’t come a final conclusion about your candidate only with his existing project reports. Since you must know his real stuff on the technology that he claims as expert, it’s important to conduct a practical test based on your requirements
5. Examine the core field ability: Core coding ability consider as an essential part to work with any platform, however still developers could work with PHP web development projects in a particular framework with less core coding knowledge, but you can’t sure they could work with any given scenario, hence it’s better to conduct a core coding test before hiring php developers.

Conclusion

Even many formalities have to be made by HR before and after on-boarding the candidates, but it’s more important than everything to follow some hierarchy as said above before taking any decision.