For the last few years, Latin America has been the go-to answer for US companies looking to expand their tech teams. It made perfect sense. The time zone overlap was convenient. The cultural affinity felt strong. It seemed like the easy solution to the high costs and intense competition of the talent market in the…
Your team is talented and busy, but does your product roadmap feel like it is stuck in mud? Deploying even simple features is terrifying and often causes new problems. Your engineers feel trapped, spending all their time fixing old code instead of building something new. The whole organization feels like it is running hard, but…
This is the new bait-and-switch you need to be aware of. A US company spends two months and thousands of dollars to hire a senior developer from India. The “bait” is a candidate with a perfect resume who aces every technical interview. Then comes the “switch.” He starts work, but deadlines are missed, and his…
Does this sound familiar? You’re watching every competitor and every headline scream about the AI revolution. You know you need to get in the game, but when you look at the price of entry, the average salary for an AI engineer in the US now topping $290,000, it feels less like an opportunity and more…
There are many key roles on a software development team that extend beyond the engineers and developers themselves. Project managers, architects, and front-end developers play an important role in tech companies accomplishing their goals. The exponential growth of the tech industry in recent years and the increase in software development has made it increasingly difficult…
When it comes to software and applications, user retention rate is an important Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for tech companies to track and analyze. A higher retention rate contributed to increased profitability and a higher Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) according to a study by the Harvard Business Review. A key aspect of software development that…
What is the role of a project manager in the tech industry? Do you rely on project managers to help you achieve your goals? Project managers are put in place to manage and organize development schedules and assign tasks to engineering teams with a singular goal in mind. A pair of key challenges that project…
Many software developers employ Agile programming to manage the more complex aspects of their software projects and Scrum programming provides a strong foundation and framework for implementing software and achieving goals — and Product Owners use this software and programming to maximize value. Product owners use Agile and Scrum methodologies to establish clear goals for…
Your developers are shipping features, but the application’s performance is getting worse. You have teams creating conflicts, unable to work in parallel without breaking things. Your microservices are not integrated correctly. This is not a failure of coding ability. It is a failure of high-level planning. Trying to build a complex application without a Solution…
So you’ve hired your first international team members. Congratulations. Now for the hard part: paying them. On time. In the correct local currency. While withholding the exact right amount for taxes and social contributions, all in accordance with labor laws you probably can’t read. If you think your domestic payroll software can handle this, you’re…
