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The companies with strongest engineering culture and most value growth I've worked at were two US-based startups who hired a lot of remote people, including Lat
by badpun 7y ago
The companies with strongest engineering culture and most value growth I've worked at were two US-based startups who hired a lot of remote people, including Latin America and Europe.
I would say the predominant reason for them to hire remotes was the fact that you can get some very good to amazing people for a price of someone unremarkable in their area (NYC and SF respectively). Also, if you just need manpower, you can get some solid performers for $60k-$90k. Given the tight budget of early stage startups (one of them refused to take funding and relied on a lot of remote people until they got sold for hundreds of millions), their call was that higher caliber of people outweights locality.
- pyang6641 7y agoHey, thanks for sharing! A lot of people argue that hiring remote employees allows you to find more talented candidates (i.e., compared to in-house). Personally, I don't think that hiring remote implies higher or lower quality workers. My sentiment is: Going remote grants you access to a larger pool of equally-talented candidates for cheaper. And that in itself is a HUGE advantage. On an unrelated note, I'd love to connect with you on LinkedIn. You can find me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/pyang6641/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pyang6641/. Cheers!