The labor market isn’t tight when it comes to software. The overseas talent is incredible abroad and easy to work with once you have the experience.
As someone who works with multiple teams overseas (Belarus and Ukraine), I have certainly not experienced any issue replacing key team members here in the USA with members abroad. Yeah, sometimes I have to wake up at weird hours, but we get things done.
This approach has been so successful, that lately we only hire architect level engineers in the USA. For all other roles we prefer to hire abroad through specific consulting firms.
Is that new? I’ve been involved with teams like that going back 20 years but when it gets hard to hire USA based devs it trickles down to those contractors too.
I’m not in a position to hire Eastern European contractors currently but do see how tight the market is otherwise and my experience would suggest increased contractor billing rates and/or more constraints on when you can dip into the contractor pool?
As someone who works with multiple teams overseas (Belarus and Ukraine), I have certainly not experienced any issue replacing key team members here in the USA with members abroad. Yeah, sometimes I have to wake up at weird hours, but we get things done.
This approach has been so successful, that lately we only hire architect level engineers in the USA. For all other roles we prefer to hire abroad through specific consulting firms.