Show HN: Get insider info about your offshore software contractor – for free http://bit.ly/2Hc6VCO
Show HN: Get insider info about your offshore software contractor – for free Hi HN, My name is Yura Riphyak and I'm the co-founder of Contractor Intelligence(http://bit.ly/2Z3G2qB). We help you make a more informed decision when choosing an offshore software development contractor. With demand for software engineers reaching 14 jobs per candidate and CS graduate salaries starting at $120,000, many Bay Area startups consider hiring part or all of their engineering team abroad. Yet outsourcing remains a risky endeavour. Due to the intrinsic conflict of interests (a dev shop maximizes their margin if they manage to sell you their lowest-salary developer for a maximum price), the offshoring industry suffers from the severe adverse selection problem. The dev shops can become very creative in selling you 'lemons'. I personally observed a video interview of a junior developer in Ukraine by a US client, with a senior colleague writing answers on a whiteboard behind the laptop :). I
