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Borys is in Ukraine, he can't understand Pablo, who is in Brazil. Pablo has trouble understanding Yosef, who is in Israel. Yosef has trouble understanding Jack,

• alephnerd 2y ago
  I was a PM for a team like that. We did well - ended up making a 8-9 figure product line. Most of us can speak English, and Engineering fundamentals like algorithmic complexity are the same all over the world. Just pay in the 70-90th percentile in a region, force engineers to write design docs and PMs PRFAQs, make sure to have a quarterly touchpoint in person, and you'll get fairly proficient talent. This is how the market is now that Eastern Europe, Israel, India, Costa Rica, etc all have self sustaining tech ecosystems now. Evolve or perish if you want to keep your career.
  • phendrenad2 2y ago
    Lucky you! Most people haven't had that experience. Everyone being able to speak English, everyone knowing algorithmic complexity, that's just damning with faint praise. I suppose if everyone paid 90th percentile salaries, and imposed the overhead of a PM org powerful enough to wrangle the various offices into shape, it would work fine. But it might still be inferior to the one-product-per-office model.