This is just my perspective, but if you're hiring and treating programmers like temps, don't expect any works of beauty. They're going to push out what they need to push out, probably very hackishly (because what do they care?), and then bail with check in-hand and let the next guy deal with the mess.

That's not such a big deal with JS, but it's a very big deal when your backend is in the toilet. You may as well flush.