Congratulations on launching. I'm considering hiring a DevOps engineer to share oncall for my solo startup. I need to know salary bands. Do you plan on providing this info?
LatAm is a big place and I don't read Spanish or Portuguese so I expect finding the info will be challenging. Levels.fyi has only Brazil, lists salaries in local currency, and has no info for DevOps engineers. Glassdoor lists large bands. For example, the bands for DevOps Engineer are USD 18k-75k in Rio de Janeiro and USD 14k-25k in Belo Horizonte. Glassdoor's salary bands don't account for English skills.
Not a downer at all! We're not a fit for everyone. We totally get that. We let the devs set their prices, and then have a standard premium benefits package because we believe everyone should have silicon valley level perks. We're definitely not the cheapest, but we're invested in a long-term relationship for both parties and not just a cost-savings play. In our experience, turnover ends up being super high with low r…
Honestly, reading many comments from potential customers and their complaints, and then reading your answers, while me being from Colombia and knowing many developers who could benefit from your vision, I thank you. While the others seem to care about cost-cutting to catering to their customers, you seem to also care about the developers, and this is a breath of fresh air. I hope many of my friends in Colombia will b…
Thank you Shorel! I think many people that object to the model haven't experienced these pain points themselves, either in the US or in Latam. But we recognize the model is not for everyone.
This is just our staff model, which Ukraine companies have provided for the last 25 years. We have a lot of them. I have not found any difference or deal breaker in your story.
TopTal changed that way to have better-motivated people, who want to work anywhere, so your idea is to step back.
First of all: a disclaimer: I work for Austin Software. Before Austin Software I worked at one of the biggest software factories for eight years, and before that as a freelancer. I know that experience doesn't cover the full spectrum of options we have today in terms of "middlemen", but I have experienced some of the trade offs that you can find in the different options. Not every company or any developer has the same needs and neither Austin Software or any other option is the best one for everyone. Having said so, I think may not be the cheapest "middlemen" out there, but they are investing in giving us good perks and finding good matches with clients. Providing perks gets easier with scale, and I've seen them reach some milestones (for instance providing private health insurance) far quicker than other companies. I don't feel my career as managed with a top down approach but they really pay attention to our needs and interests in terms of client assignments. We have periodical meetings with engineer managers to discuss all that. Also, the only way they have to increase what they charge for my services is increasing my salary. That doesn't use to happen in a software factory and that aligns our interests naturally. Freelancing on the other hand doesn't give you easy access to some kind of companies and so many interesting projects. To get the most of one developer they need to be doing something they see as an important step of their career and I think Austin Software is trying to build a good service to find good matches to make it happen.