Sr dev from Brazil, was a hiring and devrel for a (good) software house that hired a lot in Latin America.
How does this differ from companies like remote.com? Does it
work in Brazil?
Will you focus on "teaching" companies that it is OK to hire in Latin America? I feel that besides payment the biggest struggles are:
* Trust - the distrust was clear about several things from people "disappearing" to legal fears of hiring in Latin America
* Language - also a trust issue,
* Technical proficiency, companies treat developers as if they are less efficient or less informed (even if you show cases).
How are you going to work on these issues to convince companies to start hiring and using your platform?
I ask this because the hardest part was not finding devs, but all points above. With several clients even vetting developers from Latin America just because they prefer if they were in Canada and/or Mexico.
We actually do everything that remote does plus a few other things: We have local fulfillment teams that can actually do things on the ground like help with local recruiting, finding meaningful local benefits, provide local equipment like Macbooks, Airpods, even treat teams to local team building events, etc.
Our best shot at convincing companies to use us is to point to the large engineering departments that are already trusting us to expand their engineering departments in Latam.
I see, I think you will have to spend a lot of energy on creating that trust to make them want to hire before they are convinced to use your platform. Otherwise they won't be interested in just using it.
Or... They will already have developers in Latin America and already have a solution to hiring here overall.
How does this differ from companies like remote.com? Does it work in Brazil?
Will you focus on "teaching" companies that it is OK to hire in Latin America? I feel that besides payment the biggest struggles are:
* Trust - the distrust was clear about several things from people "disappearing" to legal fears of hiring in Latin America
* Language - also a trust issue,
* Technical proficiency, companies treat developers as if they are less efficient or less informed (even if you show cases).
How are you going to work on these issues to convince companies to start hiring and using your platform?
I ask this because the hardest part was not finding devs, but all points above. With several clients even vetting developers from Latin America just because they prefer if they were in Canada and/or Mexico.
It is a real barrier I dealt with several times.