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Ask HN: Cost of Remote FE Devs in Kiev vs. Krakiw vs. Warsaw
EDIT: Krakow
We are considering a remote team for FE & JS work. We have direct flights, so one of us will also fly back and forth for technical supervision.
Can HN readers please advise on typical cost for developers in these locations?
We are building a B2C app, with some graphical content, nothing mission-critical, but lots of different features.
- troydavis 9y agoAt least between Kraków, Warsaw, and nearby cities like Brno, Czech Republic, any cost differences are inconsequential compared to the impact that an experienced, bicultural (has lived and worked in both countries) local team leader will make. If someone from your team isn’t bicultural, consider recruiting the team leader in any of these cities. When you find someone who you believe in enough to make a first-class part of the team (including whatever you’d offer a senior dev manager in the US, like stock options), let them use their existing network to build the local team. Hopefully this is obvious, but just in case: if no one on your team is bicultural and the team is tiny, like 2 or 3, it makes no sense to accept all the effort of a second culture, management, and timezone. For a tiny team like that, build an entirely location-independent team - see https://zapier.com/learn/remote-work/ https://zapier.com/learn/remote-work/ or https://blog.dnsimple.com/2015/04/the-dnsimple-team-on-remote-working/ https://blog.dnsimple.com/2015/04/the-dnsimple-team-on-remot....
- yazr 9y agoWe have experience managing significant Indian and Ukrainian off-shore teams. I agree there is a very high cost of cultural fit. This was debated internally at great length ...
- didymospl 9y agoRegarding salaries in Poland you can check this nice job board https://nofluffjobs.com https://nofluffjobs.com