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How to Hire an Offshore Software Development Team

Nobody wakes up one morning and decides to go offshore for fun. Something forces the conversation. Maybe the local hiring market is dry. Maybe the budget got cut and the roadmap did not. Maybe a competitor shipped three features while you were still interviewing candidates for a role that has been open for four months. Whatever the trigger, the decision to hire offshore development team capacity is rarely made casually. And yet the process most companies follow after making that decision is surprisingly casual. They ask around, get a few recommendations, look at some websites, and end up signing with whoever seemed most professional in the proposal. Six months later they are wondering why nothing is working the way it should. This guide is about doing it differently. Why Businesses Choose to Hire Offshore Developers Let's be honest about something. The rate difference is real and it matters. A senior engineer in the US costs between $120 and $200 an hour. A senior engineer with com...

How to Hire an Offshore Software Development Team

Here is something nobody in the industry likes to say out loud. Most offshore engagements that fail do not fail because of bad code. They fail because the hiring decision was made badly from the start. The conversation usually begins with the budget. Someone on the leadership team realizes that engineering talent in the US or UK costs three to four times what it costs in India or Eastern Europe, and suddenly custom offshore software development services sound like an obvious move. And it can be. But not the way most companies approach it. Why the “Just Find Someone Cheaper” Approach Backfires Spend enough time talking to founders and CTOs who have been through a bad offshore experience and you start hearing the same story with different company names. They found an agency that quoted a reasonable price, had a nice website, showed them a portfolio, and seemed responsive during the sales process. Three months in, the original developers had been swapped out. Nobody told them. The code qu...