[jzukoff]

I just have to question the quality of the code one risks receiving when outsourcing; sure you can get lucky and find a great guy but in all likelihood it would take a few iterations to find someone worthwhile. All the while you'd be spending time and money finding a developer & losing precious time working on the product at hand.

[TheBiv]

The quality of the code is up to your requirements as a developer. Have the outsourced developer code exactly to the requirement and accept nothing less.

[jzukoff]

sure to a certain extent, but you could have all the requirements in the world and not have the outsourced developer ever turn in "quality" code, or if anything take way longer than it should take.

[aymeric]

You can regularly do code reviews, and educate the developer to write the code using your conventions.