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This is exactly my experience and I work at a very known tech company. As a manager I was told I can hire more people outside the US and was recommended to only
by tinyhouse 4y ago
This is exactly my experience and I work at a very known tech company. As a manager I was told I can hire more people outside the US and was recommended to only hire in the US if I find someone who we really don't want to pass on. In other words, top talent would be OK, everyone else would have problems.
I actually don't call it outsourcing as people think about outsourcing as a way to get cheap labor in places like India or Eastern Europe. What I see happening is that companies are not looking for cheap labor. They are looking for talent and are not lowering the bar. They just prefer locations where they can afford that talent.
- PragmaticPulp 4y ago> As a manager I was told I can hire more people outside the US and was recommended to only hire in the US if I find someone who we really don't want to pass on. In other words, top talent would be OK, everyone else would have problems. This is exactly what it turned into for us. We were encourage to hire most people outside of the US but to leave space for exceptional US candidates. It’s a hard incentive to ignore when you can hire twice as many people within the same budget by going international remote.
- engineerDave 4y agoYup. Let's birth that baby by throwing more mothers at it.
- engineerDave 4y agoapparently people haven't read the Mythical Man Month papers
- KerrAvon 4y agoBut that also means you have the administrative headache of dealing with tax laws and other personnel regulations in other places — is your company large enough that it’s not a problem, or do you outsource the payroll/accounting/HR aspects?
- PragmaticPulp 4y agoHonestly didn’t seem that difficult. They hired HR and legal people with some experience in the matter and it was their job. I have a feeling those HR and legal skills are going to be in high demand for a long time.
- around_here 4y agoEmployer of Record services have solved this for about $200 - $600/worker/month. Still significantly cheaper than paying a US worker.