It depends the field. Some companies in some locations will charge north of $250 an hour for some profiles, and more for an end to end product custom software. We shipped custom ML platforms for large organizations as part of our activities. The applications allowed their marketing and sales department to train models or load models on their data according to their workflow. Custom made. Some solutions allowed them t…
Are you saying that offshore shops in Ukraine/Poland charge $250/Hour for best candidates ? In that case, why would someone offshore it and not find devs in the US directly ? I am genuinely asking because the premise of my post was about finding the balance between cost savings and getting projects/work done effectively for companies that cannot afford to hire expensive devs in US.
My point was that it's not automatically cheaper as many people I talk with in Algiers assume that our clients in France come to us because we're "cheap offshore services" and we're not.
Our clients come to us because we hold their hand from the moment they want to understand the value of this, to ideation on where in their business this can have an impact, to working with them to execute in that space learning their systems and all, to making sure they have good results. We've shipped products for banking, telcos, energy, rail transportation, and other domains.
We're a tiny company so we're very flexible and can make decisions very fast and clients seem to like that enough to come back and refer people to us.
So, that's the context for us. Not sure how it goes for dev or Web dev or mobile as it is something we did for our clients, but not something the company is focused on. As in, sure, we'll make a mobile application if the client needs it, but it is a vehicle of ML capability. I'm saying this to give more info from someone in such a company, on another continent, albeit in a field and a budget that may not be what you're talking about.