I'm considering hiring a Node.js developer. But, all of their references are out of business or didn't have anything good to say. Is this a bad sign?

I'm looking to hire a developer but a majority of their past work and references either went out of business or stopped their project. The only person I could get in touch with said the company did a bad job. Is this a bad sign?

Submitted March 23, 2017 at 02:19PM by ineedhelpcoding