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We had an agent team at my previous employer, five people, all with several years of experience with C/C++, Linux and Mach kernels, etc. Most based in Austin, a
by manuelabeledo 3y ago
We had an agent team at my previous employer, five people, all with several years of experience with C/C++, Linux and Mach kernels, etc. Most based in Austin, and this wasn't a large operation by any means.
But of course you could easily find cheaper engineers somewhere else, you are looking at a pool of people two or three times larger after all.
We also outsourced to Israel, India, and Ukraine, between 2012 and 2018. The final outcome was to dismantle all the operations there, move some to Mexico, and repatriate most of the work to the US.
- alephnerd 3y agoIdk why our search hasn't been as great (ps I'm going to assume the previous employer was CRWD because Austin). The talent pool just doesn't seem as deep anymore in the US despite us offering pretty good salaries. At this point we were able to get US level engineering talent outside the US and I don't see us turning back, especially now that stsrtups like Wiz, Orca, etc are further enhancing the talent pool for our needs plus VMWare, Cisco, and Symantec/Broadcom's layoffs bringing us plenty of skilled engineers who returned back to the home country.